Spagetti or spaghetti?
Did you mean spaghetti? Here's the right spelling and how to remember it.
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Correct spelling: spaghetti. Misspelling: spagetti.
letters the misspelling gets wrong or leaves out letters that shouldn't be there
Memory tip
There's an H after the G, and a double T: spa-GHET-TI.
Why people write “spagetti”
The misspelling “spagetti” is only one letter off: it leaves out the silent H, a letter you barely hear when the word is spoken.
Spell-checkers catch the mistake in a document, but not in a handwritten note, a text message or a word game. Writing the word out a few times while saying the tricky part aloud is the quickest way to make spaghetti automatic.
Other misspellings of “spaghetti”
People also write “spaghettti”. Here is where each one goes wrong.
“spaghettti”
Correct spelling: spaghetti. Misspelling: spaghettti.
letters the misspelling gets wrong or leaves out letters that shouldn't be there
The misspelling “spaghettti” is only one letter off: it doubles the T, which spaghetti spells with just one.
What does “spaghetti” mean?
spaghetti noun
- spaghetti served with a tomato sauce
- pasta in the form of long strings
Definitions from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Full dictionary entry
“Spaghetti” in a sentence
- We had spaghetti for dinner.
Is “spaghetti” a playable word?
15 points in Scrabble · 16 in Words With Friends
- Scrabble (US)
- Scrabble (UK)
- Words With Friends
“spagetti” is not accepted in any of these games. See every word you can make from SPAGHETTI.