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- [tawr-tee-uh; Spanish tawr-tee-yah]
- /tɔrˈti ə; Spanish tɔrˈti yɑ/
- /tɔːˈtiː.ə/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [tawr-tee-uh; Spanish tawr-tee-yah]
- /tɔrˈti ə; Spanish tɔrˈti yɑ/
Definitions of tortilla word
- noun plural tortilla a thin, round, unleavened bread prepared from cornmeal or sometimes wheat flour, baked on a flat plate of iron, earthenware, or the like. 1
- noun tortilla Mexican flour wrap 1
- noun tortilla Spanish omelette 1
- variable noun tortilla A tortilla is a piece of thin flat bread that first came from Mexico, and is made from corn and eggs. 0
- noun tortilla a kind of thin pancake made from corn meal and cooked on a hot griddle until dry 0
- noun tortilla a thin, flat, round cake of unleavened cornmeal or, often, of flour, baked on a griddle or, originally, a flat stone 0
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Origin of tortilla
First appearance:
before 1690 One of the 49% oldest English words
1690-1700; < Spanish, equivalent to tort(a) cake (see torte) + -illa diminutive suffix < Latin -ella
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Parts of speech for Tortilla
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
tortilla popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 71% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
tortilla usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerTop questions with tortilla
- how to make tortilla chips?
- how to make tortilla soup?
- how to make homemade tortilla chips?
- how to make chicken tortilla soup?
- how many calories are in tortilla chips?
- how to fold a wrap tortilla?
- how many calories does a tortilla have?
- how many calories in a tortilla?
- how many calories does a flour tortilla have?
- how to wrap tortilla?
- how many calories in tortilla chips?
- how to fold a tortilla?
- how many calories in a corn tortilla?
- how many carbs are in a corn tortilla?
- how to make tortilla chips in oven?
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