cerises

/\sə.ʁiz\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#18,955

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

19

similar word pairs

cerises is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pluriel de cerise. Pronounced \sə.ʁiz\. Often confused with crise and Cries.

Key facts for cerises
PropertyValue
Headwordcerises
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sə.ʁiz\
Letters7
Frequency rank#18,955
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs19
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of cerises in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for cerises is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sə.ʁiz\. Corpus data places it at rank #18,955 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pluriel de cerise.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for cerises, with forms such as "ccerises", "ceirses", and "ceriess". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "crise", "Cries", "criss", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is cerises, spelled C-E-R-I-S-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de cerise.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ccerises,ceirses,ceriess,cerisess,cerisses,cerrises,cersies,creises,ecrises

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cerises

Misspelling Variants of "cerises"

ccerises8ceirses7ceriess7cerisess8cerisses8cerrises8cersies7creises7
Misspelling Variants of "cerises"

Frequency rank: #18,955 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cerises"?
"cerises" is spelled C-E-R-I-S-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \sə.ʁiz\.
What does "cerises" mean?
As a noun, "cerises" means: Pluriel de cerise.
What words are commonly confused with "cerises"?
"cerises" is commonly confused with "crise", "Cries", "criss". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "cerises"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cerises" is \sə.ʁiz\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cerises" come from?
"cerises" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.