antipasto
/-ˈpæs-/noun
antipasto is spelled A-N-T-I-P-A-S-T-O. The wrong spelling people search most is antipasta: about 530 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Antipasto is a noun meaning “An Italian starter for a meal; normally a cold assortment of salami, cheese, seafood, and vegetables”. The plural of antipasto is antipastos or antipasti.
How do you spell antipasto?
Antipasto is spelled A-N-T-I-P-A-S-T-O. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for antipasto in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
What does antipasto mean?
noun
- 1
An Italian starter for a meal; normally a cold assortment of salami, cheese, seafood, and vegetables.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce antipasto?
- /ˌæntiˈpɑstəʊ/
- /ˌɑn-/
- UK /-ˈpæs-/
Antipasto has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-antipasto.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of antipasto
- antipastos plural
- antipasti plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is antipasto?
Antipasto appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 118,441st 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).
Antipasto in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Italian starter for a meal:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | (culin.) hors d'œuvre |
| Portuguese | antepasto |
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 antipasto come from?
Borrowed from Italian antipasto (“[food] before the meal”). Doublet of antepast.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).