Crème de la Crème
The verdict
“Crème de la Crème” 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
- 17
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Gruppe, die als am besten/wichtigsten gilt
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Crème de la Crème |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˌkʁɛmdəlaˈkʁɛm] |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Crème de la Crème” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Crème de la Crème is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌkʁɛmdəlaˈkʁɛm]. 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: "Gruppe, die als am besten/wichtigsten gilt".
No misspelling variants are generated for Crème de la Crème 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 de la Crème, spelled C-R-È-M-E- -D-E- -L-A- -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
- 1Gruppe, die als am besten/wichtigsten gilt
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Using “Crème de la Crème”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is C-R-È-M-E- -D-E- -L-A- -C-R-È-M-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˌkʁɛmdəlaˈkʁɛm] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
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