crème aigre
The verdict
“crème aigre” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Produit laitier riche en graisses obtenu par fermentation, utilisé dans la cuisine nord-américaine et européenne.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crème aigre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁɛ.m‿ɛɡʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “crème aigre” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for crème aigre is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kʁɛ.m‿ɛɡʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Produit laitier riche en graisses obtenu par fermentation, utilisé dans la cuisine nord-américaine et européenne.".
No misspelling variants are generated for crème aigre in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 aigre, spelled C-R-È-M-E- -A-I-G-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Produit laitier riche en graisses obtenu par fermentation, utilisé dans la cuisine nord-américaine et européenne.
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- The one correct French spelling is C-R-È-M-E- -A-I-G-R-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kʁɛ.m‿ɛɡʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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