cerise sur le gâteau
\sə.ʁiz syʁ lə ɡa.to\
The verdict
“cerise sur le gâteau” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Élément final qui parachève le tout.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cerise sur le gâteau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sə.ʁiz syʁ lə ɡa.to\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cerise sur le gâteau” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cerise sur le gâteau is 20 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sə.ʁiz syʁ lə ɡa.to\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Élément final qui parachève le tout.".
cerise sur le gâteau doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is cerise sur le gâteau, spelled C-E-R-I-S-E- -S-U-R- -L-E- -G-Â-T-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Élément final qui parachève le tout.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “cerise sur le gâteau”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-E-R-I-S-E- -S-U-R- -L-E- -G-Â-T-E-A-U - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \sə.ʁiz syʁ lə ɡa.to\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.