amatriciana
noun
amatriciana is a noun meaning “A traditional Italian pasta sauce based on guanciale, pecorino, and tomato” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-M-A-T-R-I-C-I-A-N-A, and it appears about once in every 72 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does amatriciana mean?
noun
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A traditional Italian pasta sauce based on guanciale, pecorino, and tomato.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is amatriciana?
Amatriciana appears about once in every 72 million words in written English, the 269,040th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Amatriciana in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Italian pasta sauce based on guanciale, pecorino and tomato:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | amatriciana |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does amatriciana come from?
Borrowed from Italian amatriciana.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).