cannoli
/kaˈnəʊlɪ/
"cannoli" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cannoli” is uncommon English (frequency #63,490 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,490
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A tube of fried pastry, typical of Sicily, filled with ricotta or similar cream cheese, and flavorings, eaten as a dessert.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cannoli · cannoli · English
cannoli · rank #63,490 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,490
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH canst
Nearest frequency peer: canst (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “cannoli”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- businesslike
businesslike
36,516 corpus weight
- Callen
Callen
36,513 corpus weight
- cannoli
cannoli
36,511 corpus weight
- canst
canst
36,510 corpus weight
- cantankerous
cantankerous
36,509 corpus weight
- CARICOM
CARICOM
36,507 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “cannoli” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cannoli |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kaˈnəʊlɪ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #63,490 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cannoli” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cannoli is uncommon English at frequency #63,490 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kaˈnəʊlɪ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A tube of fried pastry, typical of Sicily, filled with ricotta or similar cream cheese, and flavorings, eaten as a dessert.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for cannoli in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Italian cannoli (plural of cannolo) or Sicilian cannoli (plural of cannolu); see there for more. The correct English form is cannoli, spelled C-A-N-N-O-L-I.
Definition
- 1A tube of fried pastry, typical of Sicily, filled with ricotta or similar cream cheese, and flavorings, eaten as a dessert.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cannoli appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian cannoli (plural of cannolo) or Sicilian cannoli (plural of cannolu); see there for more.
This word in other languages
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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