al dente

1. 1.

   of pasta cooked so as to be firm when eaten

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Questions about al dente

What does al dente mean?

al dente means "of pasta cooked so as to be firm when eaten".

Is al dente a common word?

al dente is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.