Katakana word

バbaゲgeッtトto “baguette (bread)” in Japanese

bagetto

Character by character

  1. バba
  2. ゲge
  3. ッsmall tsu: doubles the next consonant
  4. トto

バゲット is made of 3 katakana sounds and 1 small ッ. It reads bagetto.

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