Grove Spelling Dictionary
a hard c

Is there a k in pistachio?

graft: letters 6, 7
Writtenpistachio

pi-STASH-ee-oh

Not in English, and yes in Italian. Pistacchio in Italian is said with a hard k in the middle, and so is the Latin pistacium and the Greek pistakion behind it. The k sound is the older one by a long way. English is the language that turned it into sh, and it did so without changing a letter.

Other spellings of pistachio

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