Prosecco
[pʁoˈzɛko]
The verdict
“Prosecco” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #40,147. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,147
- frequency rank, German
- 49,534
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Geschützte Herkunftsbezeichnung für zu mind. 85 % aus der Rebsorte Glera vinifizierte italienische Weine, welche die Anforderungen des Disciplinare di produzione della denominazione di origine cont...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Prosecco |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pʁoˈzɛko] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #40,147 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Prosecco” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Prosecco (IPA [pʁoˈzɛko]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,147 among 49,534 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Prosecco, with forms such as "porsecco", "pprosecco", and "proescco". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Prosecco, spelled P-R-O-S-E-C-C-O.
Definition
- 1Geschützte Herkunftsbezeichnung für zu mind. 85 % aus der Rebsorte Glera vinifizierte italienische Weine, welche die Anforderungen des Disciplinare di produzione della denominazione di origine controllata dei vini „Prosecco“ erfüllen.
- 2Weiß- oder Roséweine in den Typologien Stillwein (it „fermo“), Perlwein (it „frizzante“) und Schaumwein (it „spumante“) zu mind. 85 % aus der Rebsorte Glera, soweit die Weine die Anforderungen des Disciplinare di produzione della denominazione di origine controllata dei vini „Prosecco“ erfüllen.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: porsecco,pprosecco,proescco,prosceco,proseco,prosecoc,prossecco,prrosecco,prsoecco,rposecco
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Prosecco - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Prosecco”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is P-R-O-S-E-C-C-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [pʁoˈzɛko] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.