schiavone
"schiavone" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“schiavone” is uncommon English (frequency #97,531 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,531
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A backed, hilted broadsword of the 17th century.
Corpus desk
Index EN-schiavone · schiavone · English
schiavone · rank #97,531 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,531
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Schoenfeld
Nearest frequency peer: Schoenfeld (+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 “schiavone”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Savarkar
Savarkar
2,478 corpus weight
- sayeth
sayeth
2,476 corpus weight
- schiavone
schiavone
2,470 corpus weight
- Schoenfeld
Schoenfeld
2,469 corpus weight
- Schorr
Schorr
2,468 corpus weight
- Scotian
Scotian
2,465 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “schiavone” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | schiavone |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #97,531 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “schiavone” in English
Rare enough to double-check
schiavone is uncommon English at frequency #97,531 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A backed, hilted broadsword of the 17th century.".
schiavone has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Italian schiavone, referring to the Slavs of the Doge's bodyguard. The correct English form is schiavone, spelled S-C-H-I-A-V-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1A backed, hilted broadsword of the 17th century.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how schiavone appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Once back aboard the raft and still in the grip of those tentacles, it was O'Rourke's assignment to stand quietly while his partner took a schiavone, a two-edged basket-hilted sword he had picked up in Italy, and methodically whacked off the arms of the octopus.
Etymology
From Italian schiavone, referring to the Slavs of the Doge's bodyguard.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).