pizza

Other forms of pizza

plural

pizzas·

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 pizza

What does pizza mean?

pizza means "Italian open pie made of thin bread dough spread with a spiced mixture of e.g. tomato sauce and cheese".

How many syllables are in pizza?

pizza has 2 syllables: piz-za. The stress falls on "piz". In IPA it is /ˈpitsə/.

What is another word for pizza?

Close synonyms include pizza pie. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pizza a common word?

pizza is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.