farfel
noun
farfel is a noun meaning “Small pellet-shaped egg pasta in Ashkenazic Jewish cuisine, made instead out of matzah during Passover” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-R-F-E-L, and it appears about once in every 91 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of farfel is farfels.
What does farfel mean?
noun
- 1
Small pellet-shaped egg pasta in Ashkenazic Jewish cuisine, made instead out of matzah during Passover.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of farfel
- farfels plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is farfel?
Farfel appears about once in every 91 million words in written English, the 305,310th 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).
Where does farfel come from?
From Yiddish פֿאַרפֿל (farfl).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).