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ramekin

/ˈɹæm(ɪ)kɪn/noun

ramekin is a noun meaning “A small glass or earthenware dish, often white and circular, in which food is baked and served” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-A-M-E-K-I-N, and it appears about once in every 22 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of ramekin is ramekins.

What does ramekin mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A small glass or earthenware dish, often white and circular, in which food is baked and served.

  2. 2

    A cheese- or meat-based dish baked in a small mold.

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

How do you pronounce ramekin?

  • /ˈɹæm(ɪ)kɪn/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-ramekin.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of ramekin

  • ramekins plural
  • ramequin

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

How common is ramekin?

Ramekin appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 143,405th 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).

Ramekin in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense small dish for baking in oven:

LanguageWords
Frenchramequin
GermanSoufflé-Förmchen, Auflaufförmchen

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 ramekin come from?

Borrowed from French ramequin, from dialectal Dutch rammeken (“cheese dish”) (compare Dutch rameken (“toasted bread”)) or Low German ramken (“cream”), equivalent to ream + -kin. Compare mannequin/mannikin, and compare creamer.

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