Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pignoli

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pig-no-li
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

American usage

noun

A cookie made with pine nuts, a type of amaretto.

Etymology

From Italian pinoli (“pine nuts”) (by confusion with pignoli (“fussy people”)?).

Origin

Source language: Italian

Word Breakdown

Root: pinoli

Usage

American usage

Questions

What does pignoli mean?: pine nuts
Where does pignoli come from?: It is traced to Italian.

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