cheese-cake
\tʃiz.kɛk\
The verdict
“cheese-cake” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gâteau au cream cheese à l’américaine ayant un fond de tarte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cheese-cake · cheese-cake · French
cheese-cake · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 | cheese-cake |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʃiz.kɛk\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cheese-cake » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cheese-cake is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʃiz.kɛk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Gâteau au cream cheese à l’américaine ayant un fond de tarte.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for cheese-cake in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is cheese-cake, spelled C-H-E-E-S-E---C-A-K-E.
Definition
- 1Gâteau au cream cheese à l’américaine ayant un fond de tarte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cheese-cake appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
S’abandonner sans aucun scrupule à la séduction d’un cheese-cake, voilà qui est bien tentant : nos papilles nous disent oui et notre culpabilité s’exacerbe.
Laisser refroidir le cheese-cake à la sortie du four, puis le garder au réfrigérateur.
Synonyms
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.