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patisserie

noun

patisserie is spelled P-A-T-I-S-S-E-R-I-E: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 66,686th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, patisserie means “A shop that sells pastries and cakes” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of patisserie is pâtisseries or patisseries.

How many letters and syllables are in patisserie?

Letters10: P-A-T-I-S-S-E-R-I-E
In writingabout once in every 5 million words; the 66,686th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is patisserie?

Patisserie appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 66,686th 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).

Forms of patisserie

  • pâtisseries plural
  • patisseries plural
  • pâtisserie

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does patisserie mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    UKA shop that sells pastries and cakes.

  2. 2

    A pastry.

  3. 3

    obsoletePastry.

noun

as pâtisserie
  1. 1

    Alternative spelling of patisserie.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Patisserie in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense pastry shop:

LanguageWords
Frenchpâtisserie
GermanKonditorei
Portuguesepatisseria, confeitaria
Spanishpastelería, bollería

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.

Where does patisserie come from?

Borrowed from French pâtisserie.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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