mascarpone
/ˌmæskə(ɹ)ˈpəʊni/noun
mascarpone is spelled M-A-S-C-A-R-P-O-N-E. The wrong spelling people search most is marscapone: about 890 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Mascarpone is a noun meaning “A soft, creamy Italian cheese that is not pressed or aged; often used in desserts”. The plural of mascarpone is mascarpones.
How do you spell mascarpone?
Mascarpone is spelled M-A-S-C-A-R-P-O-N-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for mascarpone in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
What does mascarpone mean?
noun
- 1
A soft, creamy Italian cheese that is not pressed or aged; often used in desserts.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce mascarpone?
- /ˌmæskə(ɹ)ˈpəʊni/
- /ˌmɑːskə(ɹ)ˈpəʊni/
- /ˌmɑːskə(ɹ)ˈpəʊneɪ/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-mascarpone.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of mascarpone
- mascarpones plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is mascarpone?
Mascarpone appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 69,884th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Mascarpone in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense cheese:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | mascarpone |
| German | Mascarpone |
| Portuguese | mascarpone |
| Spanish | mascarpone |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does mascarpone come from?
Borrowed from Italian mascarpone, from Lombard.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).