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tortellini

/ˌtɔɹtəˈlini/noun

tortellini is spelled T-O-R-T-E-L-L-I-N-I: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 77,666th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, tortellini means “A kind of small, ring-shaped pasta, stuffed with meat, cheese, etc; and eaten with a sauce or in a soup” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of tortellini is tortellinis.

How many letters and syllables are in tortellini?

Letters10: T-O-R-T-E-L-L-I-N-I
In writingabout once in every 7 million words; the 77,666th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is tortellini?

Tortellini appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 77,666th 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 tortellini?

  • US /ˌtɔɹtəˈlini/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-tortellini.oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with tortellini?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as tortellini from its last stressed vowel (/ini/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of tortellini

  • tortellinis plural
  • tortellino singular

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

What does tortellini mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A kind of small, ring-shaped pasta, stuffed with meat, cheese, etc; and eaten with a sauce or in a soup.

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

Tortellini in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense ring-shaped pasta:

LanguageWords
GermanTortellini

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 tortellini come from?

From Italian tortellini, plural of tortellino.

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

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