You can hear it in the sound file below the photo in this link below.

SharonCb

Here is a link that might be useful: How to pronounce Gnocchi

I think it's pronounced "nookie."

As in, "I'd really like some gnocchi for lunch."

Sorry, it's been a tough day and I couldn't help myself.
:)
Where is Eduardo when you need him!!

If I may throw in a little nuance...

My Sicilian family would pronounce it "knyoh-KEE". Note the "y".

Joe

I agree with Joe, that is how my Italian friend says it, but the "y" is more than a nuance it is essential to correct pronunciation.

My Calabrian mil pronounces it knee-AH-kee, for what it's worth.

Hey!!! Eduardo is all mine! He does have a friend, however. His name is Armando. He can be very, umm, charming...

Nicole

I went to Italy, to a cooking school, and the instructor pronounced it like the one above, knee-AH-kee, but all ran together.

Jo

I say knee-oh-kee. The knee and the oh are blended to rhyme with Rio. Then add the kee

I've always said Nyok-kee -- emphasis on the Nyok.

I pronounce it like Joe - knyoh-kee or a more flat southern pronounciation - know-kee.

I usually pronounce it as YUM!

Keep talking and please pass the gnocchi.

I pronounce it like Joe does, as do my Italian friends. NancyLouise

Here's another audio link

Sounds like it begins with the Spanish ñ as in mañana.
And I suppose there are regional differences in pronounciation too.

SharonCb

My friend and I argue about this all the time. His family pronounces it yee-knock-ee. When I was in Italy last year they all called it no-key. Either way, I love it!

Lpinkmountain...ROTFLMAO!!! I almost spit my dinner out all over my keyboard! And it wasn't gnocchi!

Where's Jessy???

Seems like most pronounce it different, but the majority is nyoh-kee (or know-kee)

As a young girl my Calabrian grandfather told me to think of saying New York as a way of remembering how to pronounce nyoh-kee. Oh how I miss his cooking.

(Kathy I didn't want to touch that one with a ten foot pole lol)

Jessy, you are turning into a wuss. I was scrolling and waiting and you didn't take the bait.

Sigh...I got here late!

OMG - this is great! Pinkmt is the bomb! That was great!
Ok - so correct pronunciation of Italian words (and Nuclear) is a BIG pet peeve of mine...so I agree with Joe - knyoh-KEE
That is the proper Italian pronunciation - as Gnocchi are originally a Northern Italian regional pasta. Then there are the dialects - so that would change the pronunciation. Gnocchi with Gorgonzola and Leeks:
Saute 1/4 cup of finely sliced leeks in butter in a pan until soft, add 1/2 cup or so of crumbled Gorgonzola and stir to melt add splash of white wine. Stir - taste for seasoning and add ground white pepper and small dash of nutmeg. Meanwhile boil the your favorite recipe of potato gnocchi and drain - reserving some of the pasta water - toss with the sauce and add some of the pasta water if the sauce is too thick. Serve - pass the fresh ground black pepper. -maria

I don't have any friends so I can pronounce it any way I want to. Vique.

Northern Italian here - two generations ago - my gran always pronounced it the same way that Joe did - for fun we always said "Yonks" (to annoy my gran)!

DonnaR/CA

The Italian guy I used to work for (Calabrian) pronounced it Pam dedtired)'s way- nyok-ee, emphasis on the "o" (which is pronounced as the "o" in "knock"). The "ny" sound is prouncounced as the "n" in "manana" (can't do the little tilde, sorry).

Gotta ring in here... my maternal grandparents were from a little place 7 miles north of Rome, and my paternal grandparents were from a little town near the French border.

My maternal grandmother would make her gnocchi once a week, on top of her kitchen table. I have that very same table.

We've always pronounced it "knyo-key" (the first "k" is silent, and the accent is on the first syllable).

I once heard a TV chef call them "knock-ees" --rhymes with Rockies. Strange.

Smiles,
Sooz

"I once heard a TV chef call them "knock-ees" --rhymes with Rockies. Strange."

It is strange because gnocchi is the plural of gnoccho. So gnocchies is the English pluralization of an Italian plural, if you get what I mean. I've heard raviolies and spiedinies too. Oddly, these usages seem to be prevalent among my friends of Italian descent.

Jim

In my family, we use gnocchi as both the singular and the plural, sorta like fish and deer can be both singular and plural nouns.

Ohhhh, taste this gnocchi! (generally referring to one single gnocchi)
We're having gnocchi for dinner! (you KNOW this means a batch of them)

Interesting!
Smiles,
Sooz

Maria, that recipe looks delicious and easy. Believe it or not, I've never had gnocchi before, no matter how it's pronounced. I'll have to try some, and use your recipe.

So, the way some of you, including Joe and Maria have written the phonetics, it looks like the accent is on the last syllable. Is that the case? Also, is the "k" pronounced? If not, wouldn't it be left out of the phonetical spelling? Just getting picky here, but also trying to understand whether it's supposed to have that k sound included.

Sally

yeah, talk about strange, Jim - I often hear them called "yonkees"

Or maybe that's just how it sounds after a couple glasses of wine.

nyokee would be how I would pronounce it; although with the italian word "bagno"
I pronounce bang-yo, the gn sound is familiar in french but I can't find a way to explain it in english,

the more I read this thread, the more confused I am at the proper way-
I'm convinced it can't be" knock ee"

My grandmother used to say, "I don't care what you call me, just don't call me late for dinner!" So, I don't care what you call them, just make them fresh and call me when the water's boiling! And where's Lou? He must have an opinion about this.

Sharon's second link sounds correct to me - the first one should not be trusted, since it is British, and the British are famous for mangling foreign words.

As for bagno - I've only heard it pronounced "ban-yo". It's true that "gn" in Italian is equivalent to the Spanish "ñ", and both are extremely rare at the beginning of words. BTW, "gnoccho" also means "dolt, idiot", which may be why the singular version is seldom used. There is a similar word in Spanish, "naco", which means "plebian" in Mexico, but with rather severe social innuendos, which I won't go into.

Chefs are also famous for mispronouncing words, using bad grammar, and having annoying sentence constructions, such as beginning every sentence with "What I'm going to do next is, I'm going to..." instead of saying "Next I'm going to...", but then they would be less obnoxious. I don't know where this habit originated, but it seems to have proliferated in the cooking schools, where English is obviously not a subject taught (or well understood). I have heard chefs on TV say they were going to make "No Keys", which makes me shudder. The "o" should be pronounced like the "o" in "York" (minus the "r"), more like the "o" in "Romulus" than in "Rome". "Roma" has a long "o", "gnocchi" has a short "o", but it is not the same short "o" as in English.

Lars

"..."gnoccho" also means "dolt, idiot", which may be why the singular version is seldom used..."

Could be. But then, we are seldom dealing with just one gnoccho or one raviolo.

Jim

We usually term cannoli or cannolo because you usually eat one. Gnocchi (I agree with Jim) are seldom eaten in the singular.

Mitch - not knock-ee and definitely not knockers.

-maria

I'm half Italian and in my 40's now, my grandparents came from Italy, and my Italian family pronounces it "knee-AH-kee" all ran together like @jojoco said.