torte
/tɔɹt/noun
torte is a noun meaning “A rich, dense cake, typically made with many eggs and relatively little flour (as opposed to a sponge cake or gâteau)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-O-R-T-E and has one syllable, and it appears about once in every 8 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of torte is tortes or torten.
What does torte mean?
noun
- 1
A rich, dense cake, typically made with many eggs and relatively little flour (as opposed to a sponge cake or gâteau).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce torte?
- UK /tɔːt/
- US /tɔɹt/
Torte has one syllable (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-uk-tort.ogg, En-us-tort.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of torte
- tortes plural
- torten plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is torte?
Torte appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 83,271st 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).
Words people confuse with torte
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sounds like: taut, tort (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Torte in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a rich, dense cake:
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 torte come from?
Borrowed from German Torte. Cognate to tart. Doublet of torta.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).