osso buco
/ˌɒsəʊ ˈbuːkəʊ/
"osso-buco" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“osso buco” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A northern Italian dish of veal shanks and marrowbones braised in white wine, tomatoes, etc., often served with risotto.
Corpus desk
Index EN-osso-buco · osso buco · English
osso buco · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "O" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | osso buco |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌɒsəʊ ˈbuːkəʊ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “osso buco” in English
Rare enough to double-check
osso buco is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˌɒsəʊ ˈbuːkəʊ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A northern Italian dish of veal shanks and marrowbones braised in white wine, tomatoes, etc., often served with risotto.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for osso buco in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Italian ossobuco (a compound of osso (“bone”) + buco (“hole”, or as an adjective, “hollow”)). The correct English form is osso buco, spelled O-S-S-O- -B-U-C-O.
Definition
- 1A northern Italian dish of veal shanks and marrowbones braised in white wine, tomatoes, etc., often served with risotto.
Etymology
From Italian ossobuco (a compound of osso (“bone”) + buco (“hole”, or as an adjective, “hollow”)).
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.