Home › Words › O › orecchietteorecchietteorecchiette means A type of pasta, made with the thumb from a small disk, typically from Puglia.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, orecchiette ranks #2,710 of 42,752 for Qualifying.EtymologyBorrowed from Italian orecchiette (literally “little ears”).nounA type of pasta, made with the thumb from a small disk, typically from Puglia.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).