"Pasta" is the general word for a kind of food made of unleavened dough that's molded into shapes and baked. It is an Italian word and usually refers to all of the different kinds of Italian pasta. There are dozens of kinds of pasta. In the United States, kinds of pasta that are very common include long, thin spaghetti; short, hollow macaroni; flat lasagna; little filled pillows of ravioli. "Pasta" is an Italian word and usually refers to Italian styles of pasta. "Noodles" is a generic word for a pasta-like food, but it is usually used when the food is NOT considered "Italian." For example, "Ramen noodles," "Japanese noodle bowl," "Chinese noodles," If I heard the word "noodles" and nothing else--just "noodles"--I would probably assume that it meant egg noodles in the New York Jewish tradition.

Pasta and spaghetti are Italian words of course and if you visit a supermarket or grocery store you will see numerous types of pasta of which spaghetti is only one. Noodles can be made of pasta but more commonly of rice and are used in many Asian countries.

well, spaghetti is the long, thin type, such as 'spaghetti bolognese', spaghetti is a type of pasta noodles are very similar to spaghetti, however noodles originated in Japan mainly, and other areas of east Asia pasta is made of the same thing as spaghetti, and can be in many shapes Examples: Pasta: 'Wow! this pasta has an interesting shape!' noodles: 'Ramen is a bowl of noodles in soup' spaghetti: 'when I eat spaghetti bolognese, I have to cut up the spaghetti because it is too long'