crème anglaise
\kʁɛ.m‿ɑ̃.ɡlɛz\
The verdict
“crème anglaise” 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
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Crème liquide composée de lait, de jaunes d’œuf, de sucre et parfumée à la vanille.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crème anglaise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁɛ.m‿ɑ̃.ɡlɛz\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “crème anglaise” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for crème anglaise is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kʁɛ.m‿ɑ̃.ɡlɛz\. 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: "Crème liquide composée de lait, de jaunes d’œuf, de sucre et parfumée à la vanille.".
No misspelling variants are generated for crème anglaise 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 anglaise, spelled C-R-È-M-E- -A-N-G-L-A-I-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Crème liquide composée de lait, de jaunes d’œuf, de sucre et parfumée à la vanille.
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- The one correct French spelling is C-R-È-M-E- -A-N-G-L-A-I-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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