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manicot

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
man-i-cot
IPA
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

manicotti.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From the American Neapolitan pronunciation spelling of manicotti. In Neapolitan, the final vowel of a word is reduced to a schwa, which is further apocopated, hence the deletion of -i.

Usage

Inflected Forms

manicots (plural)

Questions

What does manicot mean?
manicotti.
Where does manicot come from?
From the American Neapolitan pronunciation spelling of manicotti. In Neapolitan, the final vowel of a word is reduced to a schwa, which is further apocopated, hence the deletion of -i.

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