SPICES

12-letter Spices

Every spice on this page is exactly 12 letters long — full profile for each.

Looking for 12-letter spices? Here are 2 spices that fit — each linked to a full profile.

Letters are counted across the whole name with spaces, hyphens, apostrophes, and diacritics excluded. "Apple Pie" is 8 letters; "Boeuf Bourguignon" is 16.

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Aleppo PepperSweet Paprika

List of 12-letter Spices

    1

    Aleppo Pepper

    Capsicum annuum

    A coarsely crushed Syrian-Turkish chili with a soft fruity heat and salt-oil sheen — the finishing flake of choice for kebabs, hummus, and labneh.

    2

    Sweet Paprika

    Capsicum annuum

    Ground sweet bell-pepper-style chiles with rich color and little heat — the supermarket staple sprinkled over deviled eggs and goulash worldwide.

About 12-letter spices

That's our current list of spices with exactly 12 letters. Need a different length? Try the browse-by-length pills in the sidebar, or combine with a starting letter — for example, 12-letter spices that start with A.