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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

marinara

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.53 in modern English

Syllables
mari-nara
IPA
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Prepared with tomatoes, or in a tomato sauce.

adj

Of pasta: In a seafood sauce. Of pizza: With seafood topping.

Australian usage

noun

A marinara sauce.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From Italian alla marinara (“sailor style”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

marinaras (plural)

Questions

What does marinara mean?
Prepared with tomatoes, or in a tomato sauce.
Where does marinara come from?
It is traced to Italian.

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