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 many letters and syllables are in focaccia?
| Letters | 8: F-O-C-A-C-C-I-A |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 9 million words; the 87,317th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, foccacia, about 1,060 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
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.
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).
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).
What rhymes with focaccia?
4 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as focaccia from its last stressed vowel (/ɑtʃə/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of focaccia
- focaccias plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does focaccia mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
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).
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).