focaccia
/foʊˈkɑtʃə/noun
focaccia is spelled F-O-C-A-C-C-I-A. The wrong spelling people search most is foccacia: about 1,060 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Focaccia is a noun meaning “A flatbread similar in style, composition, and texture to modern pizza doughs and topped with herbs, cheese…”. The plural of focaccia is focaccias.
How do you spell focaccia?
Focaccia is spelled F-O-C-A-C-C-I-A. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for focaccia 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 focaccia mean?
noun
- 1
A flatbread similar in style, composition, and texture to modern pizza doughs and topped with herbs, cheese and other products. Focaccia typically consists of high-gluten flour, oil, water, sugar, salt and yeast.
- 2
A sandwich made with this type of bread.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce focaccia?
- UK /fəˈkætʃə/
- US /foʊˈkɑtʃə/
- US /fəˈkɑtʃə/
Focaccia 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: En-us-focaccia.oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of focaccia
- focaccias plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is focaccia?
Focaccia appears about once in every 9 million words in written English, the 87,317th 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).
Focaccia in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense type of flatbread:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Focaccia |
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 focaccia come from?
Unadapted borrowing from Italian focaccia, from Late Latin focācium (via its plural focācia), derived from Latin focus (“hearth”). Doublet of fougasse and pagash. Cognate with Sicilian fugazza, Serbo-Croatian pogača (“unleavened bread”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).