tetrazzini
/tɛtɹəˈziːni/noun
tetrazzini is a noun meaning “An American dish usually including a non-red meat and a white sauce over spaghetti or some similar pasta” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-E-T-R-A-Z-Z-I-N-I, and it appears about once in every 41 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does tetrazzini mean?
noun
- 1
An American dish usually including a non-red meat and a white sauce over spaghetti or some similar pasta.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce tetrazzini?
- /tɛtɹəˈziːni/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is tetrazzini?
Tetrazzini appears about once in every 41 million words in written English, the 196,618th 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).
Tetrazzini in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | tetrazzini |
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 tetrazzini come from?
After Luisa Tetrazzini, Italian opera singer.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).