orzo

1. 1.

   pasta shaped like pearls of barley; frequently prepared with lamb in Greek cuisine

   Broaderpasta

Other forms of orzo

plural

orzoes·

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 orzo

What does orzo mean?

orzo means "pasta shaped like pearls of barley; frequently prepared with lamb in Greek cuisine".

How many syllables are in orzo?

orzo has 2 syllables: or-zo. The stress falls on "or".

Is orzo a common word?

orzo is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.