porcini
/pɔːˈtʃiː.ni/
"porcini" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“porcini” is uncommon English (frequency #95,287 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,287
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An edible mushroom (Boletus edulis), prized for its flavor.
Corpus desk
Index EN-porcini · porcini · English
porcini · rank #95,287 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,287
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH Popovic
Nearest frequency peer: Popovic (-2 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 “porcini”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Pollok
Pollok
4,718 corpus weight
- Popovic
Popovic
4,716 corpus weight
- porcini
porcini
4,714 corpus weight
- postulating
postulating
4,711 corpus weight
- potbelly
potbelly
4,710 corpus weight
- Poulson
Poulson
4,709 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “porcini” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | porcini |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pɔːˈtʃiː.ni/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #95,287 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “porcini” in English
Rare enough to double-check
porcini is uncommon English at frequency #95,287 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /pɔːˈtʃiː.ni/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An edible mushroom (Boletus edulis), prized for its flavor.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for porcini, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Italian porcini, plural of porcino. The correct English form is porcini, spelled P-O-R-C-I-N-I.
Definition
- 1An edible mushroom (Boletus edulis), prized for its flavor.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how porcini appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
1994, A Valley in Itay: The Many Seasons of a Villa in Umbria, Lisa St Aubin de Terán http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zwkjAQAAIAAJ&q=%22three+porcini%22&dq=%22three+porcini%22&hl=en&ei=SWffTt7DF4POhAe355yCBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAA Robbie, on the other hand, on his first trip out with Clara's brother Licio, gathered twent…
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian porcini, plural of porcino.
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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