chou à la crème
\ʃu a la kʁɛm\
The verdict
“chou à la crème” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chou garni de crème pâtissière.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chou-a-la-creme · chou à la crème · French
chou à la crème · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 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 | chou à la crème |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃu a la kʁɛm\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chou à la crème » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chou à la crème is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃu a la kʁɛm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Chou garni de crème pâtissière.".
chou à la crème has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is chou à la crème, spelled C-H-O-U- -À- -L-A- -C-R-È-M-E.
Definition
- 1Chou garni de crème pâtissière.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chou à la crème appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je vois sur une table d’énormes choux à la crème qui ont fort bel aspect. Je lance un ballon d’essai : « Qu’ils ont l’air appétissant, ces… comment dites-vous en anglais ?... Cream-puffs ? Ah oui, ces cream-puffs. » « Vous en désirez, Hugues ? Prenez-en », me répond-il.
La religieuse peut se définir comme un chou à la crème surmonté d’un chou de taille miniature également fourré. Le petit chou tient avec le glaçage, et on le glace lui-même en surface.
This word in other languages
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.