crème
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#41,102
in German word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
crème is aGermannoun. It means: Rahm, Sahne Pronounced [kʁɛm]. Often confused with CRM and crew.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crème |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kʁɛm] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #41,102 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for crème is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kʁɛm]. Corpus data places it at rank #41,102 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Rahm, Sahne".
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for crème, with forms such as "ccrème", "crmèe", and "crrème". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "CRM", "crew", "crime", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is crème, spelled C-R-È-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Rahm, Sahne
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccrème,crmèe,crrème,crèem,crèmme,cèrme,rcème
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for crème
Misspelling Variants of "crème"
Frequency rank: #41,102 in German
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Nearby German words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our German index: