Doughnut vs. Cruller — What's the Difference?

A doughnut or donut (IPA: ) is a type of leavened fried dough. It is popular in many countries and is prepared in various forms as a sweet snack that can be homemade or purchased in bakeries, supermarkets, food stalls, and franchised specialty vendors.

A cruller () is a deep-fried pastry like a doughnut popular in the US and Canada often made from a rectangle of dough with a cut made in the middle that allows it to be pulled over and through itself, producing twists in the sides of the pastry. The cruller has been described as resembling "a small, braided torpedo".

A small ring-shaped cake made of rich, light dough that is fried in deep fat.

A small cake made of rich dough twisted or curled and fried in deep fat.

Something whose form is reminiscent of a ring-shaped cake.

A small, usually ring-shaped or twisted cake of sweet dough fried in deep fat.

A fast, tight 360° turn made in a motor vehicle or motorized boat.

(US) A donut in the form of a twisted ring.

A deep-fried piece of dough or batter, commonly of a toroidal (a ring doughnut) shape, often mixed with various sweeteners and flavourings; or flattened sphere (a filled doughnut) shape filled with jam, custard or cream.

A kind of sweet cake cut in strips and curled or twisted, and fried crisp in boiling fat.

Anything in the shape of a torus.

Small friedcake formed into twisted strips and fried; richer than doughnuts

(attributive) A circular life raft.

(physics) A toroidal vacuum chamber.

(North America) A peel-out or skid mark in the shape of a circle; a 360-degree skid.

A spare car tyre, usually stored in the boot, that is smaller than a full-sized tyre and is only intended for temporary use.

A kind of tyre for an airplane.

(slang) A vulva; (by extension) a woman's virginity.

A foolish or stupid person.

A small cake (usually sweetened) fried in a kettle of boiling lard.

A toroidal shape;

A small ring-shaped friedcake