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spaghetti

/spəˈɡɛt.i/
spa · ghet · ti
Plural:spaghetti
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spaghetti Lexical Profile

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• noun

1

A type of traditional Italian pasta in the form of long, thin, solid cylindrical strings.

Example

"She boiled a large pot of salted water to cook the spaghetti for dinner."

2

Something that is intricately tangled, convoluted, or disorganized, particularly used to describe poorly structured computer code.

Example

"The legacy system's codebase was an unmaintainable mess of spaghetti that took months to unravel."

Synonyms
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Word Nuance & Usage

Although etymologically plural in Italian, 'spaghetti' functions strictly as a singular, uncountable mass noun in English (e.g., 'the spaghetti is ready').

• Rhymes for spaghetti

• Nearby Words

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spadework
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spain
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Word Origin & Etymology

Borrowed from Italian 'spaghetti', the plural of 'spaghetto' (a thin string or twine), which is a diminutive of 'spago' (string, cord).

Usage Trend

Historical frequency of usage in published text.

180019102020
Data source: Google Books Ngram Viewer

Cite this Entry

Wordmom. (2026). Definition of Spaghetti. In Wordmom Dictionary. Retrieved Nov 5, 2026, from https://wordmom.com/dictionary/spaghetti
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