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panini

noun

panini is spelled P-A-N-I-N-I: 6 letters and 3 syllables. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 42,680th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, panini means “plural of panino” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of panini is paninis.

How many letters and syllables are in panini?

Letters6: P-A-N-I-N-I
Syllables3 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 2 million words; the 42,680th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is panini?

Panini appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 42,680th 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 panini?

    Panini has 3 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).

    Forms of panini

    • paninis plural

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

    What does panini mean?

    The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

    noun

    1. 1

      plural of panino (a form of panino)

    2. 2

      proscribedA type of grilled sandwich made of a small loaf of bread, cut horizontally, filled with meat such as salami or ham, cheese or other food.

      (two characters talking at a table in a cafeteria) -- "What is that? What's a panini?" -- "It's a bread roll, toasted, flattened. It's nice."

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

    Panini in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

    In the sense a sandwich:

    LanguageWords
    GermanPanino
    Spanishpanini, panino

    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 panini come from?

    Borrowed from Italian panini, plural of panino (literally “small bread”).

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

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