Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

spaghetto

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: spaghet-to
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A single strand of spaghetti.

Example Sentences

"My first class consisted of twenty-six dancers; at least a third of these appeared to be tiny Asian women, each with a waist the approximate width of a spaghetto."
"With his thumb and forefinger he lifted one spaghetto at a time and dunked it into the bowl of sauce before eating it."
"Not once was I allowed to help make dinner, slice a tomato, boil a spaghetto (one piece of spaghetti), or wash a dish."
"A typical spaghetto is linear. If each strand is covered in a sauce with lots of olive oil, it can slide over others. If you then tried to pick up the spaghetti with your fingers, you would only get the few strands you actually held and the rest would slip back onto the plate."

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian spaghetto; see further at spaghetti.

Origin

Source language: Italian

Word Breakdown

Root: spaghetto

Inflected Forms

spaghetti (plural)

Questions

What does spaghetto mean?: A single strand of spaghetti.
Where does spaghetto come from?: It is traced to Italian.

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