Crème brulée
[kʁɛːm bʁyˈleː]
The verdict
“Crème brulée” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - eine Nachspeise, bei der Eigelbe, Zucker, Sahne und/oder Milch vermischt und in Portionsförmchen im Ofen gegart werden; das fertige (abgekühlte) Gericht wird mit Zucker überstreut, der mit einem Bu...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Crème brulée |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kʁɛːm bʁyˈleː] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Crème brulée” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Crème brulée is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kʁɛːm bʁyˈleː]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "eine Nachspeise, bei der Eigelbe, Zucker, Sahne und/oder Milch vermischt und in Portionsförmchen im Ofen gegart werden; das fertige (abgekühlte) Gericht wird mit Zucker überstreut, der mit einem Bu...".
No misspelling variants are generated for Crème brulée in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 brulée, spelled C-R-È-M-E- -B-R-U-L-É-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1eine Nachspeise, bei der Eigelbe, Zucker, Sahne und/oder Milch vermischt und in Portionsförmchen im Ofen gegart werden; das fertige (abgekühlte) Gericht wird mit Zucker überstreut, der mit einem Bunsenbrenner oder Ähnlichem karamellisiert wird, so dass eine knackige Kruste entsteht
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- The one correct German spelling is C-R-È-M-E- -B-R-U-L-É-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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