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farinata

noun

farinata is a noun meaning “A flat baked pancake, somewhat similar to a pizza, made from chickpea flour and olive oil” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-R-I-N-A-T-A, and it appears about once in every 62 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of farinata is farinate or farinatas.

What does farinata mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A flat baked pancake, somewhat similar to a pizza, made from chickpea flour and olive oil.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of farinata

  • farinate plural
  • farinatas plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is farinata?

Farinata appears about once in every 62 million words in written English, the 246,401st 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).

Farinata in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Translations:

LanguageWords
Spanishfainá

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 farinata come from?

Borrowed from Italian farinata.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).