croquette

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/kɹoʊˈkɛt//kɹɔˈkɛt/

noun

A minced, cooked food (usually meat or vegetables), which is deep-fried in fat and sometimes sprinkled with breadcrumbs.

“crab croquettes”

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Meanings

nouncroquette (plural croquettes)

plural croquettes

  1. cookingA minced, cooked food (usually meat or vegetables), which is deep-fried in fat and sometimes sprinkled with breadcrumbs.

    crab croquettes

    1 more example

    chicken croquettes

Origin

  1. Frenchcroquette
  2. Englishcroquette

Borrowed from French croquette, from croquer (“to crunch”) + -ette (suffix indicating diminution). Doublet of korokke and kroket.

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Translations

Catalan croqueta
  • croquetafood
Chinese Cantonese 可樂餅 /可乐饼, 吉樂餅 /吉乐饼
  • 可樂餅 /可乐饼 (ho² lok⁶ beng²)food
  • 吉樂餅 /吉乐饼 (gat¹ lok⁶ beng²)food
Chinese Mandarin 可樂餅 /可乐饼, 吉樂餅 /吉乐饼
  • 可樂餅 /可乐饼 (kělèbǐng)food
  • 吉樂餅 /吉乐饼 (jílèbǐng)food
Czech kroketa
  • kroketafood
Dutch kroket
  • kroketfood
Esperanto fritbulo
  • fritbulofood
Finnish kuorukka, kroketti
  • kuorukkafood
  • krokettifood
French croquette
  • croquettefood
German Krokette
  • Krokettefood
Hungarian krokett
  • krokettfood
Indonesian kroket
  • kroketfood
Irish cróicéad
  • cróicéadfood
Italian crocchetta
  • crocchettafood
Japanese クロケット, コロッケ
  • クロケット (kuroketto)food
  • コロッケ (korokke)food
Korean 크로켓, 고로케
  • 크로켓 (keuroket)food
  • 고로케 (goroke)food
Polish krokiet
  • krokietfood
Portuguese croquete
  • croquetefood
Russian кроке́т, фрикаде́лька
  • кроке́т (krokét)food
  • фрикаде́лька (frikadɛ́lʹka)food
Spanish croqueta
  • croquetafood
Swedish krokett
  • krokettfood
Welsh crimpen
  • crimpenfood
Yiddish קראָקעט
  • קראָקעט (kroket)food

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with croquette

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Anagrams

coquetter
Cite this entry
APA

croquette. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/croquette

MLA

“croquette.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/croquette. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “croquette,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/croquette.

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