cerise sur le gâteau
\sə.ʁiz syʁ lə ɡa.to\
The verdict
“cerise sur le gâteau” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Élément final qui parachève le tout.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cerise-sur-le-gateau · cerise sur le gâteau · French
cerise sur le gâteau · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 20 letters
- VOW-9 9 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « cerise sur le gâteau » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cerise sur le gâteau is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \sə.ʁiz syʁ lə ɡa.to\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cerise sur le gâteau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cerise sur le gâteau, pour une obscure raison, Colombe, qui n’a pas une once de discernement, a compris que ce que je redoute le plus, dans la vie, c’est le bruit.
les métaphores si usées qu’on s’étonnait que d’autres osent les dire, la cerise sur le gâteau.
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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.