ricotta
\ʁi.kɔ.ta\
The verdict
“ricotta” is uncommon French (frequency #59,598 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,598
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Produit laitier issu historiquement de la cuisson du lactosérum, sous-produit de la fabrication du fromage emprésuré.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ricotta · ricotta · French
ricotta · rank #59,598 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,598
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rhénan
Nearest frequency peer: rhénan (-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 « ricotta »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- revirements
revirements
40,406 corpus weight
- rhizome
rhizome
40,405 corpus weight
- rhénan
rhénan
40,404 corpus weight
- ricotta
ricotta
40,403 corpus weight
- rigoriste
rigoriste
40,401 corpus weight
- riment
riment
40,400 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ricotta » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ricotta |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁi.kɔ.ta\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #59,598 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ricotta » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ricotta is uncommon French at frequency #59,598 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁi.kɔ.ta\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Produit laitier issu historiquement de la cuisson du lactosérum, sous-produit de la fabrication du fromage emprésuré.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ricotta in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is ricotta, spelled R-I-C-O-T-T-A.
Definition
- 1Produit laitier issu historiquement de la cuisson du lactosérum, sous-produit de la fabrication du fromage emprésuré.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ricotta appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Avant que nous ne le quittions, notre hôte tient à nous faire goûter à sa ricotta : fromage blanc obtenu avec le petit-lait que tu chauffes après y avoir ajouté un peu de présure.
99% des ricottas vendues en France sont des fromages industriels au lait pasteurisé.
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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