crème caramel
"creme-caramel" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“crème caramel” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A baked custard with a soft caramel top.
Corpus desk
Index EN-creme-caramel · crème caramel · English
crème caramel · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crème caramel |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “crème caramel” in English
Rare enough to double-check
crème caramel is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A baked custard with a soft caramel top.".
crème caramel has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French crème caramel. The correct English form is crème caramel, spelled C-R-È-M-E- -C-A-R-A-M-E-L.
Definition
- 1A baked custard with a soft caramel top.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how crème caramel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Remember the bottles of wine, the pastas, crèmes caramels, breads, sweet butter, eggs Benedict, moules marinières, peaches, coffee, sausage, tender chicken, honey, salad greens, shrimp, chocolate.
Twice in December we had dinner alone together, and once we stayed until we were politely asked to leave the Hayes Street Grill, after drinking a good six glasses of amaretto and eating a large number of shared crèmes caramels.
Etymology
Borrowed from French crème caramel.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.