provolone
\pʁɔ.vɔ.lɔ.ne\
The verdict
“provolone” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fromage au lait de vache d’Italie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-provolone · provolone · French
provolone · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | provolone |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.vɔ.lɔ.ne\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « provolone » en français
Rare enough to double-check
provolone is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pʁɔ.vɔ.lɔ.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fromage au lait de vache d’Italie.".
No misspelling variants are generated for provolone in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is provolone, spelled P-R-O-V-O-L-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1Fromage au lait de vache d’Italie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how provolone appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Debout dans le bureau en milieu de journée, je savoure mon sandwich Plunkett préféré, provolone vieux et mortadelle entre deux moitiés d'un petit pain rond.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.