manicotti

1. 1.

   large pasta tubes stuffed with chopped meat or mild cheese and baked in tomato sauce

   Broaderpasta

Other forms of manicotti

plural

manicottis·

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 manicotti

What does manicotti mean?

manicotti means "large pasta tubes stuffed with chopped meat or mild cheese and baked in tomato sauce".

How many syllables are in manicotti?

manicotti has 4 syllables: ma-ni-cot-ti. The stress falls on "ni".

Is manicotti a common word?

manicotti 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.