'Allumette, allumettes' *(f')literally means 'matchstick,s', and may refer to:
pastry cut into small strips resembling matches - you may see 'allumettes au fromage' which, translated literally means 'matchsticks with cheese', or, as we say it in English, 'cheese straws';
potatoes cut into thin matchsticks, and fried;
thin sticks of pastry, which are glazed with icing.
The singular and plural forms of this word are pronounced identically.
allumette /s
ahl/lew/met
How To Say It
The ‘a’ sounds like the ‘a’ in ‘father’;.
The 'u' rhymes with 'mew';
Say the 'mett' to rhyme with 'bet';
Do not say the final 'e';
The singular and the plural forms of the word are pronounced identically.