provolone
/ˈpɹoʊvəloʊn/
"provolone" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“provolone” is uncommon English (frequency #66,958 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,958
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A semi-hard cheese made of whole milk from cows. It comes primarily from Southern Italy.
Corpus desk
Index EN-provolone · provolone · English
provolone · rank #66,958 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,958
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH prow
Nearest frequency peer: prow (+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 “provolone”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- proffer
proffer
33,047 corpus weight
- prospective…
prospectively
33,045 corpus weight
- provolone
provolone
33,043 corpus weight
- prow
prow
33,042 corpus weight
- prunus
prunus
33,041 corpus weight
- père
père
33,039 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “provolone” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | provolone |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpɹoʊvəloʊn/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,958 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “provolone” in English
Rare enough to double-check
provolone is uncommon English at frequency #66,958 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈpɹoʊvəloʊn/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A semi-hard cheese made of whole milk from cows. It comes primarily from Southern Italy.".
Zero misspellings are on record for provolone in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Italian provolone, augmentative of provola. The correct English form is provolone, spelled P-R-O-V-O-L-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1A semi-hard cheese made of whole milk from cows. It comes primarily from Southern Italy.
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian provolone, augmentative of provola.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).