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puttanesca

/ˌputəˈnɛskə/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.59 in modern English

Syllables
put-ta-nes-ca
IPA
/ˌputəˈnɛskə/
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A cooking sauce made from tomato flavoured with garlic, anchovies, capers and olives, created in Naples.

Uncountable

adj

Served with puttanesca sauce.

Example Sentences

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian puttanesca (feminine of puttanesco, literally “whorish, sluttish”), from puttana (“whore”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Regional Pronunciation

  • American English: /ˌputəˈnɛskə/
  • British English: /ˌpʊtəˈnɛskə/

Usage

Inflected Forms

puttanescas (plural)

Rhymes With

francesca

Questions

How do you pronounce puttanesca?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˌputəˈnɛskə/.
What does puttanesca mean?
A cooking sauce made from tomato flavoured with garlic, anchovies, capers and olives, created in Naples.
Where does puttanesca come from?
It is traced to Italian.

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