prosciutto

noun

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The verdict

“prosciutto” is uncommon French (frequency #87,978 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#87,978
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jambon italien.

Corpus desk

Index FR-prosciutto · prosciutto · French

prosciutto · rank #87,978 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #87,978
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH prothésiste

Nearest frequency peer: prothésiste (+1 rank slots)

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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « prosciutto »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « prosciutto » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for prosciutto
PropertyValue
Headwordprosciutto
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters10
Frequency rank#87,978
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « prosciutto » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.prosciuttotombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « prothésiste » (#87,979), « programmatiques » (#87,976), « protohistoire » (#87,980). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « prosciutto » est au #87,978. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

prosciutto is uncommon French at frequency #87,978 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Jambon italien.".

No misspelling variants are generated for prosciutto in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is prosciutto, spelled P-R-O-S-C-I-U-T-T-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    Jambon italien.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how prosciutto appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Découvrez l'alliance du goût des pétoncles avec celui du prosciutto dans cette entrée servie en brochettes.

This word in other languages

prosciutto(English)

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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "prosciutto"?
"prosciutto" is spelled P-R-O-S-C-I-U-T-T-O.
What does "prosciutto" mean?
As a noun, "prosciutto" means: Jambon italien.
What language does "prosciutto" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "prosciutto", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

prouveront#87,982pressurage#87,969postillons#87,963polarisées#87,956

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list