How to Pronounce BUFFET

Learn how to pronounce buffet correctly by understanding the syllables.

The word buffet is made up of 2 syllables.

It is commonly pronounced in two ways.

1st option
Stress the 1st syllable: BUFF-aye

2nd option
Stress the 2nd syllable: boo-FAY

In the picture we see a dining area in a hotel.
The sentence reads: To attract outside guests, the hotel provided a lavish buffet on weekends.

Examples of buffet from news items:

The restaurant, previously called the Lunch Basket, was a buffet.
Source: The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/18/tax-audit-earned-income-tax-credit-mississippi

For many readers, these pages are like a peek inside a master chef’s spice cabinet; they hint at influences on the person who is about to host a pop-up buffet in your brain.
Source: New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/25/books/review/the-code-breaker-walter-isaacson.html

A dinner buffet awaited, outdoors, near where the cafeteria remains shuttered.
Source: The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/14/sports/ncaafootball/cal-football-pac-12.html

They eat boxed lunches rather than the normal buffet, and the tables are spaced much farther apart than their usual gatherings.
Source: The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/coronavirus-congress-testing-trump/2020/10/03/73c30db6-0581-11eb-a2db-417cddf4816a_story.html

Nightclubs, bars, buffet restaurants and other establishments deemed as “high-risk” will be shut in Seoul during the holiday period to reduce gatherings.
Source: The Seattle Times
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/asia-today-south-korea-has-virus-jump-before-holiday-period/

Alessandra Stanley, writing in The New York Times, suggested that this premise seemed about as appetizing as a haggis buffet.
Source: New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/19/arts/television/in-treatment-uzo-aduba.html

The joy of a buffet of elections is being able to graze on the details that emerge beyond the main headlines – the political afters while most people are gorging on the main course.
Source: BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-57048811

Saturday reservation for Kahala Hotel & Resort’s seafood buffet when police on the beach side of the property started clearing people from the pool and other areas.
Source: Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/us/sailor-hawaii-resort-standoff-identified

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