cerise
/səˈɹiːz/
"cerise" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cerise” is uncommon English (frequency #86,124 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,124
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A deep, bright red colour tinted with pink.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cerise · cerise · English
cerise · rank #86,124 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,124
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH cephalopod
Nearest frequency peer: cephalopod (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “cerise”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- cephalopod
cephalopod
13,878 corpus weight
- cerise
cerise
13,877 corpus weight
- Chahal
Chahal
13,876 corpus weight
- Chalcedon
Chalcedon
13,875 corpus weight
- chalcedony
chalcedony
13,874 corpus weight
- Chancellors…
Chancellorsville
13,873 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “cerise” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cerise |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /səˈɹiːz/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #86,124 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cerise” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cerise is uncommon English at frequency #86,124 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /səˈɹiːz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A deep, bright red colour tinted with pink.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for cerise in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French cerise (mid 19th century), itself from Vulgar Latin ceresia, from Latin cerasium. Doublet of cherry and kirsch. The correct English form is cerise, spelled C-E-R-I-S-E.
Definition
- 1A deep, bright red colour tinted with pink.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cerise appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Before us lay the autumn tinted woods glimmering in gold, purple, green, and cerise.
His bold patterns in vivid colours predated the arrival in Paris of the Ballets Russes, though his later designs reflect the canary yellows, bright blues, jades, cerises […]
Etymology
Borrowed from French cerise (mid 19th century), itself from Vulgar Latin ceresia, from Latin cerasium. Doublet of cherry and kirsch.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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