zucchini
/zuːˈkiː.ni/noun
zucchini is spelled Z-U-C-C-H-I-N-I. The wrong spelling people search most is zuchini: about 1,240 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 14 of all searches for the word. Zucchini is a noun meaning “A courgette; a variety of squash, Cucurbita pepo, which bears edible fruit”. The plural of zucchini is zucchinis.
How many letters and syllables are in zucchini?
| Letters | 8: Z-U-C-C-H-I-N-I |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 30,418th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, zuchini, about 1,240 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell zucchini?
Zucchini is spelled Z-U-C-C-H-I-N-I. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 14 of the searches for zucchini in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is zucchini?
Zucchini appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 30,418th 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 zucchini?
- US /zuːˈkiː.ni/
Zucchini 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). Recordings: En-us-zucchini.ogg, En-au-zucchini.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with zucchini?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as zucchini 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 zucchini
- zucchinis plural
- zucchina
- zucchino
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does zucchini mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
AustraliaCanadaUSA courgette; a variety of squash, Cucurbita pepo, which bears edible fruit.
- 2
AustraliaCanadaUSThe edible fruit of this variety of squash.
- 3
plural of zucchino
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does zucchini come from?
Borrowed from Italian zucchini, plural of zucchino, diminutive of zucca (“squash”). Ultimately related to courgette through the original Latin cucurbita. Compare Sicilian cucuzza.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).