# How do you pronounce ‘paprika’? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 25, 2025, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-paprika/1022459 "2025-08-25T16:38:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 15
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2025, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-paprika/1022459/15 "2025-08-25T17:07:05Z")
> [@Pap-RIK-a or PAP-rik-a?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pap-rik-a-or-pap-rik-a/468237): > > How do you pronounce ‘paprika’: pap-REEK-a, PAP-rick-a, or something else, and where are you from? I grew up pronouncing it PAP-rick-a, because that’s how my parents pronounce it, but found that people look at me oddly for it. I assumed that my family had some weird, incorrect pronunciation, but couldn’t quite eradicate it. Then, today, I saw [this video](http://bitten.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/15/on-today-how-your-broiler-can-sub-in-for-the-grill/), in which Mark Bittman pronounces it like I do (the first time is at 1:42, although later, the anchorwoman, who is pronouncing it pap-REEK-a,… Deja vu. I think both pronunciations are correct, but PAH-pri-ka was British and used to be used more here. Modern Americans are switching over to Pah-PREE-ka, which is now the way I say it. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-paprika/1022459)._