confetti

1. 1.

   small pieces or streamers of colored paper that are thrown around on festive occasions (as at a wedding)

   Broaderpaper

Other forms of confetti

plural

confettis·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about confetti

What does confetti mean?

confetti means "small pieces or streamers of colored paper that are thrown around on festive occasions (as at a wedding)".

How many syllables are in confetti?

confetti has 3 syllables: con-fet-ti. The stress falls on "fet". In IPA it is /kənˈfɛti/.

Is confetti a common word?

confetti is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.