spaghetti
/spəˈɡɛti/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.65 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Something physically resembling spaghetti (noun 1 sense 1) in appearance or consistency, or in being tangled.
Informal; Uncountable
noun
Something physically resembling spaghetti (noun 1 sense 1) in appearance or consistency, or in being tangled.
Informal; Uncountable
noun
Something physically resembling spaghetti (noun 1 sense 1) in appearance or consistency, or in being tangled.
Informal; Uncountable
noun
Something physically resembling spaghetti (noun 1 sense 1) in appearance or consistency, or in being tangled.
Informal; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Her mother was cooking spaghetti for dinner."
- "Maccheroni, or Spaghetti, a smaller kind of macaroni, sufficient for the dinner of an ordinary mortal, generally follows the soup. It is as a rule served up with tomato sauce, and Parmesan cheese thickly scattered over it."
- "spaghetti grid spaghetti junction spaghetti limbs spaghetti strap spaghetti stripes"
- "Or how about that spaghetti of cables, adaptors and plugs you keep in a box somewhere, the detritus of old phones, laptops and tablets — each with a different charging point — is that not an example of staggeringly wasteful, bad design?"
- "“But the infrastructure is like spaghetti,” he continued. “It’s chaotic, it doesn’t connect up and there’s no cohesive network. If you can get that right, it will eliminate a lot of confusion.”"
- "Coordinate term: blob of death"
Etymology
The noun is borrowed from Italian spaghetti, the plural of spaghetto (“strand of spaghetti”), from spago (“cord, string, twine; thread”) + -etto (diminutive suffix). Spago is derived from Latin spagus (“twine”), probably from Ancient Greek σφάκος (sphákos, “apple sage (Salvia pomifera)”), probably from Pre-Greek. The verb is derived from the noun.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: spagus, σφάκος
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /spəˈɡɛti/
- British English: /spəˈɡɛti/