Ice cream or icecream?
ice cream is a noun meaning “A dessert made from frozen sweetened cream or a similar substance, usually…”; icecream is a noun meaning “Alternative spelling of ice cream”. Wiktionary gives them as spellings of the same word. ice cream is written as two words and icecream as one word; they are used differently.
What is the difference between ice cream and icecream?
| ice cream | icecream | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun | noun |
| Meaning | A dessert made from frozen sweetened cream or a similar substance, usually flavoured A portion of ice cream on a stick, in a cup or in a wafer cone | Alternative spelling of ice cream |
| Example | Strawberries are particularly delicious with ice cream | none recorded |
| Forms | ice-creams | icecreams |
| Pronunciation | /ˌaɪsˈkɹiːm/ /ˈaɪsˌkɹiːm/ /ˈaɪs.kɹiːm/ | not recorded |
| In writing | not counted (the list counts single words) | about once in every 3 million words |
Sources: ice cream and icecream in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Every current meaning of ice cream and icecream
ice cream
- 1
A dessert made from frozen sweetened cream or a similar substance, usually flavoured
Strawberries are particularly delicious with ice cream
- 2
Alternative spelling of ice cream
- 3
A portion of ice cream on a stick, in a cup or in a wafer cone
Can I have some money for an ice cream, Mum?
- 4
slangThe drug methamphetamine
icecream
- 1
Alternative spelling of ice cream
Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.
Which is more common, ice cream or icecream?
ice cream is a phrase, which the list of single words does not count; icecream about once in every 3 million words.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).