rapini
noun
rapini is a noun meaning “A vegetable native to China, Brassica rapa subsp. ruvo, with green spiky leaves and a bitter taste” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-A-P-I-N-I, and it appears about once in every 58 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does rapini mean?
noun
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A vegetable native to China, Brassica rapa subsp. ruvo, with green spiky leaves and a bitter taste.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of rapini
- rappini
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is rapini?
Rapini appears about once in every 58 million words in written English, the 237,177th 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).
Where does rapini come from?
From Italian rapini, diminutive of rapo, variant of rapa (“turnip”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).