matzo
/ˈmætsə/noun
matzo is a noun meaning “Thin, unleavened bread in Jewish cuisine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-A-T-Z-O and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 6 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of matzo is matzos or matzot.
What does matzo mean?
noun
- 1
Thin, unleavened bread in Jewish cuisine.
Matzo is eaten by Jews on Passover.
- 2
A piece of the above bread.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce matzo?
- UK /ˈmætsə/
- UK /ˈmætsəʊ/
- UK /ˌmɑːˈtsɑː/
Matzo has 2 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-matzo.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of matzo
- matzos plural
- matzot plural
- matzoth plural
- matsah
- matza
- matzah
- matzoh
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is matzo?
Matzo appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 74,980th 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).
Matzo in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense thin, unleavened bread:
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 matzo come from?
When stressed on the first syllable, from Yiddish מצה (matse), from Hebrew מַצָּה (matsá); pronunciations stressed on the second syllable are borrowed directly from Hebrew.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).