dessert
/dɪˈzɝt/noun
dessert is spelled D-E-S-S-E-R-T: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 6.8 times per million words in written English, the 9,165th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “desert vs dessert” about 14,800 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, dessert means “The last course of a meal, consisting of fruit, sweet confections etc” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of dessert is desserts.
How many letters and syllables are in dessert?
| Letters | 7: D-E-S-S-E-R-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 6.8 times per million words; the 9,165th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is dessert?
Dessert appears 6.8 times per million words in written English, the 9,165th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce dessert?
- UK /dɪˈzɜːt/
- US /dɪˈzɝt/
Dessert has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-dessert.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with dessert
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: desert.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with dessert?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as dessert from its last stressed vowel (/ɜɹt/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: tressed.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of dessert
- desserts plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does dessert mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The last course of a meal, consisting of fruit, sweet confections etc.
I ordered hummus for a starter, a steak as the main course, and chocolate cake for dessert.
- 2
A sweet dish or confection served as the last course of a meal.
Trifle is a favourite dessert of the English, but rivalled by pavlova in Australia and New Zealand.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Dessert in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense sweet confection served as the last course of a meal:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | dessert |
| German | Nachtisch, Nachspeise, Dessert |
| Portuguese | sobremesa |
| Spanish | dulce, postre |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.