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Nutella.

A sweet spread made from hazelnuts, sugar, vegetable oils, cocoa solids and skimmed milk, generically called chocolate spread.

7 characters3 syllables approx.English language

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name/nuːˈtɛlə//nʌˈtɛlə//njuːˈtɛlə/
  1. A sweet spread made from hazelnuts, sugar, vegetable oils, cocoa solids and skimmed milk, generically called chocolate spread.

Where this word comes from

Marketing name borrowed from Italian Nutella, from English nut + -ella (diminutive suffix). Coined in the early 1960s by Italian entrepreneur Michele Ferrero, the son of Italian businessman Pietro Ferrero, the inventor of the product's forerunner Supercrema.

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