crème
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,191
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
crème is aFrenchnoun. It means: Partie la plus grasse du lait, avec laquelle on fait le beurre. Pronounced \kʁɛm\. It ranks #3,191 in French word frequency. Often confused with CRM and Crie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crème |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁɛm\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,191 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for crème is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kʁɛm\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,191 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for crème, with forms such as "ccrème", "creme", and "crmèe". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CRM", "Crie", "crue", 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 crème, spelled C-R-È-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Partie la plus grasse du lait, avec laquelle on fait le beurre.
- 2Café crème.
- 3Entremets fait de lait et d’œufs et qui a la consistance de la crème du lait.
- 4Toute sorte de liquide qui rappelle la crème par sa couleur ou sa consistance.
- 5Toute sorte de liquide qui rappelle la crème par sa couleur ou sa consistance.
- 6Toute sorte de liquide qui rappelle la crème par sa couleur ou sa consistance.
- 7Préparation galénique formée par une émulsion dans laquelle diverses substances sont dissoutes, c'est un topique.
- 8Liqueur fine de certains types.
- 9Homme bon.
- 10Ce qu’il y a de meilleur, de plus estimable dans une même catégorie de choses ou de gens.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccrème,creme,crmèe,crrème,crèem,crèmme,cèrme,rcème
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for crème
Misspelling Variants of "crème"
Frequency rank: #3,191 in French
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "crème"?
What does "crème" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "crème"?
How do you pronounce "crème"?
What language does "crème" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our French index: