What flatbread is folded around a taco filling?

A tortilla is the flatbread folded around a taco filling.

In Mexican cuisine, the tortilla is usually made from corn or wheat flour and serves as both wrapper and eating utensil. A soft tortilla bends around meat, beans, vegetables, seafood, or other fillings, allowing the taco to be lifted and eaten without cutlery. Hard taco shells are also tortilla-based, but they are fried into a rigid shape rather than simply folded.

Corn tortillas have deep roots in Mesoamerica and are made from masa, dough produced from nixtamalized corn. Wheat flour tortillas appeared later, after wheat was introduced to Mexico during the Spanish colonial period, and became especially common in northern Mexico. Both varieties are used for tacos, though regional traditions differ.

The main mix-up is with other flatbreads such as lavash, naan, or pita. Those breads can hold fillings, but they are not the defining wrapper of the taco. Burritos use a tortilla too, yet the tortilla is generally rolled around a larger filling rather than folded into the open shape associated with a taco.