pasta
Dough made from wheat and water and sometimes mixed with egg and formed into various shapes; often sold in dried form and typically boiled for eating.
Noun 4 meanings
Dough made from wheat and water and sometimes mixed with egg and formed into various shapes; often sold in dried form and typically boiled for eating.
A dish or serving of pasta.
A type of pasta.
A copypasta (block of text which has been copied and pasted from somewhere else, serving as a story or meme).
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian pasta (“paste; pasta, noodles”), from Late Latin pasta (“dough, pastry cake, paste”), from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá, “barley porridge”), neuter plural of παστός (pastós, “sprinkled with salt”), from Ancient Greek πάσσω (pássō, “to sprinkle”). Doublet of paste.
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PASTA at a glance
PASTA has 5 letters and scores 7 points in Scrabble (P 3 + A 1 + S 1 + T 1 + A 1) and 8 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #7,950 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with pasta
All rhymes- COSTA7
- VISTA8
- FIESTA9
- BARISTA9
- GANGSTA9
- PODESTA10
- SHASTA9
- SIESTA6
- VESTA8
- HASTA8
- FASHIONISTA17
- RASTA5
One letter away
- PASTE7
- PASHA10
- PASTY10
- PASTS7
- HASTA8
- RASTA5
- BASTA7
- PACTA9
- PASKA11
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