semifreddo
noun
semifreddo is a noun meaning “Any of various desserts eaten cold but not frozen, having egg yolks, sugar and cream as main ingredients” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-E-M-I-F-R-E-D-D-O, and it appears about once in every 81 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of semifreddo is semifreddos or semifreddi.
What does semifreddo mean?
noun
- 1
Any of various desserts eaten cold but not frozen, having egg yolks, sugar and cream as main ingredients.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce semifreddo?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-semifreddo.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of semifreddo
- semifreddos plural
- semifreddi plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is semifreddo?
Semifreddo appears about once in every 81 million words in written English, the 286,585th 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).
Where does semifreddo come from?
Borrowed from Italian semifreddo.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).