gorgonzola
"gorgonzola" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gorgonzola” is uncommon English (frequency #73,234 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,234
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A blue-veined Italian cheese, made from cow's milk.
Corpus desk
Index EN-gorgonzola · gorgonzola · English
gorgonzola · rank #73,234 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,234
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH Gorakhpur
Nearest frequency peer: Gorakhpur (-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 “gorgonzola”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- GMG
GMG
26,773 corpus weight
- Goldsworthy
Goldsworthy
26,771 corpus weight
- Gorakhpur
Gorakhpur
26,768 corpus weight
- gorgonzola
gorgonzola
26,767 corpus weight
- grappa
grappa
26,765 corpus weight
- grenache
grenache
26,763 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “gorgonzola” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gorgonzola |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #73,234 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “gorgonzola” in English
Rare enough to double-check
gorgonzola is uncommon English at frequency #73,234 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A blue-veined Italian cheese, made from cow's milk.".
No misspelling variants are generated for gorgonzola in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Italian Gorgonzola, a town in northern Italy where the cheese originated. The correct English form is gorgonzola, spelled G-O-R-G-O-N-Z-O-L-A.
Definition
- 1A blue-veined Italian cheese, made from cow's milk.
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian Gorgonzola, a town in northern Italy where the cheese originated.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).