What is another word for spaghetti?

Spaghetti is a type of pasta. Its name means "little strings" or "little twine" in Italian. Broken down, the Italian name is derived from: Spago which means twine, Spaghettowhich means little twine, and Spaghetti is plural for Spaghetto.

There are other string shaped pastas with other names, such as Spaghettini, which is thin strings of pasta; Bucatini, which is a hollow spaghetti; Perciatelli, hollow spaghetti that is thicker than Bucatini; Capelli d'Angelo is the thinnest strings, also known in the US as "Angel Hair"; and another stringy pasta is Vermicelli. Spaghetti is the thickest of the non-hollow strings and Capelli d'Angelo is the thinnest. In between those are others of varying thicknesses besides Vermicelli, some of which are:

Fedilini, Vermacelloni, and Capellini.

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