cerise

\sə.ʁiz\

/\sə.ʁiz\/ noun

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The verdict

“cerise” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,360. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#11,360
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fruit comestible du cerisier charnu, petit et sphérique et à la peau généralement rouge, qui est une drupe.

Corpus desk

Index FR-cerise · cerise · French

cerise · rank #11,360 · 8 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #11,360
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH catalan

Nearest frequency peer: catalan (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « cerise »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « cerise » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

cerise vs Cris
50% similar
cerise vs Crie
50% similar
cerise vs cese
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for cerise
PropertyValue
Headwordcerise
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sə.ʁiz\
Letters6
Frequency rank#11,360
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cerise »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.cerisese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « catalan » (#11,359), « chalet » (#11,361), « cadet » (#11,358). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « cerise » est au #11,360. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around cerise (IPA \sə.ʁiz\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,360 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for cerise, with forms such as "ccerise", "ceirse", and "ceries". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Cris", "Crie", "cese", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is cerise, spelled C-E-R-I-S-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Fruit comestible du cerisier charnu, petit et sphérique et à la peau généralement rouge, qui est une drupe.
  2. 2
    Fruit du caféier, qui contient deux noyaux, les grains de café.
  3. 3
    Cerises à l’eau-de-vie.
  4. 4
    Malchance, guigne, poisse.
  5. 5
    Gyrophare de police (qui est habituellement rouge).
  6. 6
    Virginité, pour une femme.
  7. 7
    Visage, tête.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how cerise appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Te sachant gourmande, le gâteau basque à la crème et à la cerise, ainsi que le gâteau à la broche, font partie des spécialités régionales.
  2. Mais aucun spectacle d’effort ne saurait être plus stupéfiant que celui offert par la mère Cloutet, poussant, dans la côte de Ménilmontant, une voiture chargée de cinquante kilos de cerises. « À la douce, cerises, à la douce ! »

This word in other languages

cherry(English)cereza(Español)Kirsche(Deutsch)cereja(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccerise
  • ceirse
  • ceries
  • cerisse
  • cerrise
  • cersie
  • creise
  • ecrise

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cerise - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

ccerise1ceirse2ceries2cerisse1cerrise1cersie2creise2ecrise2
Edit distance from "cerise"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cerise"?
"cerise" is spelled C-E-R-I-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sə.ʁiz\.
What does "cerise" mean?
As a noun, "cerise" means: Fruit comestible du cerisier charnu, petit et sphérique et à la peau généralement rouge, qui est une drupe.
What words are commonly confused with "cerise"?
"cerise" is commonly confused with "Cris", "Crie", "cese". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "cerise"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cerise" is \sə.ʁiz\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cerise" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cerise", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

chalet#11,361buffet#11,356chevet#11,364Boeing#11,353

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

bénin8 variantschips8 variantscoiffeur8 variantsAdidas8 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list