vacherin
noun
vacherin is a noun meaning “A soft cow's-milk cheese from France and Switzerland” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-A-C-H-E-R-I-N, and it appears about once in every 95 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of vacherin is vacherins.
What does vacherin mean?
noun
- 1
A soft cow's-milk cheese from France and Switzerland.
- 2
datedA cake-shaped dessert made of an almond paste shell filled with (non-frozen) double cream and topped with whipped cream.
- 3
Ellipsis of vacherin glacé.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of vacherin
- vacherins plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is vacherin?
Vacherin appears about once in every 95 million words in written English, the 313,259th 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).
Vacherin in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense type of cheese:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | vacherin |
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 vacherin come from?
Borrowed from French vacherin, from Franco-Provençal [Term?]. The dessert was likely named for its resemblance to the round shape of vacherin cheese wheels.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).