What is this called? (a skillet? a pan? a frying pan? something else?)

In Australia that's only a frying pan. Do they use skillet anywhere outside America? It's rare to hear it and I can only remember hearing it from yanks.

All skillets are pans, but not all pans are skillets.

Skillet sounds very American (which of course isn’t a problem unless you want to learn standard English), I’m not sure if it’s used elsewhere. In England it’s a frying pan!

All of the above

Yes

It's called different things in different places. All of the words you listed are correct

A frying pan. You wouldn't call this a pan because that covers all pans so it's not helpful to the fact you pick up a frying pan for specific cooking purposes. I wouldn't call it a skillet because it's a non-stick cheap/mass produced frying pan. I would use skillet for a cast-iron frying pan that likely would need seasoning before use.

All of the above, most often I would call it a frying pan.

All of the above. Pan can be used more generally, so you may use "frying pan" so it is clear you're not talking about a saucepan (or sauté pan). Skillet isn't used often in general usage as it is a synonym of French origin, you'll see it more if you're shopping, and I assume it is used in the industry.

England, frying pan.

It depends on the size and what it looks like on the inside.

I'd call it a frying pan. Obviously that is a specific type of "pan", but on its own I would never refer to it simply as a pan. However, it could be part of a set of pans. I would tend to refer to an individual pan as a "pan" only if it were a saucepan type of pan.

I'd call it a frying pan. Skillet isn't wrong, just not common where I'm from. (USA, Ohio/California)

American here. All three suggestions are correct, but I'd say that skillet and frying pan are best because they're more specific than "pan." By contrast, I think pan is a broader term that can refer to any cooking vessel that can hold liquid, but that isn't deep enough to be a pot (e.g., cake pans, sauciers, etc.). L

From the photo, it looks like a frying pan, but an overhead view would help. A concise explanation, per Kitchensity.com: >>Skillets have curved or sloped sides and are ideal for dry heat cooking methods like pan frying and sautéing. Frying pans and sauté pans, on the other hand, have straight sides, with sauté pans being deeper and better suited for cooking with liquids and using lids.<< It's definitely not a wok, at least.

Yes.

All of the above, though I would call it a pan

Yes. Any of those names are accurate. Skillet strikes me as a bit more... culinary(?) or formal than the others for some reason.

Definitely a frying pan. I'd never call something shaped that way a skillet. It's definitely also a pan but frying pan is more specific. 

Sauté pan if you want to dabble in English French 

They all work. I call it a frying pan.

All of those are correct. I think frying pan is probably the most universally common

Peter. Never gets old.

A pan. Or a frying pan. This is what I think of when I think of a skillet (at least in my world)... [https://i.ytimg.com/vi/abF6zH62Auo/sddefault.jpg](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/abF6zH62Auo/sddefault.jpg)

I live in Maine in the USA and would only call that a frying pan. A skillet has to be cast iron where I am from and I don’t use the word pan alone. The other type of pan would be a roasting pan. I use the phrase pots and pans to describe the collection. Also I would send that thing off to the free store, it’s got a teflon coating as I suppose. (A free store is a shack at the dump, and a good place to find pots and pans for free. Also mugs, lots of mugs at the free store.)

I'd call that a frying pan. If it had straight sides and was a little bit deeper then it would be a skillet. Both of which are kinds of pan.

BrEng - this is a frying pan. Using "pan" by itself is correct, but ambiguous because you could be talking about a saucepan instead.

Brit here... specifically I'd call it a frying pan. Skillets are usually cast iron and don't curve from the edges to the base. It is also a 'pan', but if that was the only thing you were saying and I couldn't see what you were talking about, I'd think you were talking about a deep pan.

My friends and people I know that live in the city call it a skillet while my family that is more rural calls it a frying pan. Both work and are pretty common.

I'm British (English) and would call that a frying pan. I would certainly understand skillet, though in my experience it is used much less frequently. I would think of a skillet as a heavy, usually cast iron, frying pan.

In UK, that's a frying pan. We don't generally use "skillet". A "pan" without qualification would *generally* be taken to mean one with higher sides.

Yes.

As a cook, I’d say a sauté pan to be more specific, but all of these are correct. Sauté is a word borrowed from French which comes from the word “jump”, as the curved edge of the pan is designed to make the food “jump”.

All of these are correct! I've also heard "fry pan," but that may be regional (I was raised in North Carolina). It's perfectly acceptable to just say "pan" if no confusion will arise. In American English, this is almost always fine to do, but British English may be different.

If you hold it over your head when it rains, you can turn that frying pan into a drying pan! But seriously, the only word I wouldn't consider calling it is a pot. All of your choices are correct, they just each have a different connotation, or emotional baggage, with them.

That's just a pan/frying pan. A skillet is made of cast iron and goes in the oven not on the stove top

According to my wife it’s a weapon

I have heard all three used to mean the same thing. I personally just call it a pan because I am lazy.

A pan, a frying pan, or a nonstick pan. You *could* call it a skillet, however in my part of the world, that word is generally only used for a cast iron pan.

It’s a food holding sizzler dish with handle, size F

From the US. It can certainly be any of those to a lot of people. But what I will say, is that if you were to ask someone to get this object from the other room, and you wanted to ensure the highest chance they will return with the correct object regardless of where they are from, "frying pan" would be most unambiguous and most understood. You can specify the diameter (e.g. "ten inch") or the size (e.g. "large") if you want to be even more specific (i.e. if you have a set of multiple frying pans that are different sizes). "Pan" is still correct, but can also refer to saucepans, which have straight, vertical sides, not the rounded bottom edge that frying pans have. "Skillet" is what it's called in some dialects, but isn't universally used and, in some places, refers to either a certain shape (straight, usually non-vertical sides, often with a spout) or a certain material (cast iron).

Yes, but frying pan

yes, yes, yes, and maybe

Where’s Charles Boyle when you need him?

A frying pan is the most common name for it, though I’ve heard of a “skillet” once or twice before.

Skillet, frying pan, pan, and possibly some other terms are appropriate. However, it does depend on the regional dialect. I actually have a story about this one. In college, I was at one point rooming with one person who spoke Mid-Atlantic English and another who spoke Appalachian English. At one point, the one who spoke Mid-Atlantic referred to this as a "pan" (short for "frying pan") which confused the Appalachian roommate. The latter, after a second went "do you mean the skillet." From what I was able to gather, "pan" in Appalachian English exclusively refers to a [sheet pan](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ihwnd7z21q/images/stencil/1280x1280/products/872/2717/210498__98490.1724079449.jpg?c=1) and "skillet" is the only appropriate term for OP's image. I'm a native speaker of Mid-Atlantic English myself, but I've spent a lot of time interacting with people who speak Appalachian English, so I've run into all sorts of strange dialectical differences between the regions.

All three are appropriate and are often used interchangeably!

Depends on the country

Comal for some of us at the southern border