Meaning and background
The story behind Enchilada
Enchilada is an English culinary word for a filled tortilla dish covered with chili sauce. Merriam-Webster describes the tortilla as usually corn and the finished dish as generally baked. It also records the figurative phrase the whole enchilada. These food and idiom associations explain the spelling’s playful effect as a pet name without claiming that it has an unrelated personal-name translation or recommending the dish as dog food.
- Association
- Enchilada is an English culinary word for a filled tortilla dish covered with chili sauce. Source
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About Enchilada
Recorded as a dog’s name
Enchilada appears in 2 dog licence records in the 2023 New York City dataset.
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Pronunciation and rhythm
/ɛntʃɪlɑdə/
US English sound sequence, converted from the CMU dictionary. Stress marks are shown separately.
Stress on the third syllable in the recorded US readings.
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/ɛntʃɪlɑdə/ · primary stress on syllable 3EH0 N CH IH0 L AA1 D AH0
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Sources and research notes (2)
- New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene NYC Dog Licensing Dataset — all seven available extract years, retrieved 24 October 2026 — Recorded name spellings in NYC licence-period rows, extract years 2016–2018, 2022–2024 and 2026. Evidence selects one stated year per name. Annual snapshots overlap; never sum them as unique dogs. No national popularity, etymology or owner naming-intent claim.
- Carnegie Mellon University / CMU Sphinx maintainers CMU US English Pronouncing Dictionary — US English dictionary readings; not owner-specific or exhaustive multilingual pronunciation
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