sofrito
noun
sofrito is a noun meaning “A sautéed mixture of chopped onions, garlic, and tomato and/or (chili) peppers, and sometimes carrots, celery, and/or herbs, used as the beginning…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-O-F-R-I-T-O, and it appears about once in every 34 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of sofrito is sofritos.
What does sofrito mean?
noun
- 1
A sautéed mixture of chopped onions, garlic, and tomato and/or (chili) peppers, and sometimes carrots, celery, and/or herbs, used as the beginning point of a dish, especially in Hispanic or Portuguese cuisine.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of sofrito
- sofritos plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is sofrito?
Sofrito appears about once in every 34 million words in written English, the 178,202nd 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).
Sofrito in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense noun:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | sofrito |
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 sofrito come from?
Borrowed from Spanish sofrito. Doublet of soffritto.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).