radicchio

1. 1.

   prized variety of chicory having globose heads of red leaves

   Broaderchicory

Other forms of radicchio

plural

radicchios·

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 radicchio

What does radicchio mean?

radicchio means "prized variety of chicory having globose heads of red leaves".

How many syllables are in radicchio?

radicchio has 4 syllables and divides as ra-dic-chi-o under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.