prosecco
\pʁo.se.ko\
The verdict
“prosecco” is uncommon French (frequency #91,057 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,057
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vin blanc effervescent italien.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prosecco · prosecco · French
prosecco · rank #91,057 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,057
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH proscrites
Nearest frequency peer: proscrites (-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 « prosecco »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- promulgués
promulgués
8,947 corpus weight
- propulsent
propulsent
8,946 corpus weight
- proscrites
proscrites
8,945 corpus weight
- prosecco
prosecco
8,944 corpus weight
- proéminentes
proéminentes
8,943 corpus weight
- précontraint
précontraint
8,942 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « prosecco » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prosecco |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁo.se.ko\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #91,057 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « prosecco » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prosecco is uncommon French at frequency #91,057 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pʁo.se.ko\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Vin blanc effervescent italien.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for prosecco, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is prosecco, spelled P-R-O-S-E-C-C-O.
Definition
- 1Vin blanc effervescent italien.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prosecco appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après une anchoïade servie avec son fagot de gressins torsadés, le tout accompagné d’un verre de prosecco, suivit une pleine assiettée de scattoni au jambon cru arrosée d’un Lacryma Christi rosso.
Le prosecco aidant, elle éprouva soudain l’envie d’interroger Lorenzo pour le pousser dans ses retranchements.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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