crème chantilly
\kʁɛm ʃɑ̃.ti.ji\
The verdict
“crème chantilly” 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) - Synonyme de chantilly.
Corpus desk
Index FR-creme-chantilly · crème chantilly · French
crème chantilly · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 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 | crème chantilly |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁɛm ʃɑ̃.ti.ji\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
crème chantilly is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁɛm ʃɑ̃.ti.ji\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Synonyme de chantilly.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for crème chantilly, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 crème chantilly, spelled C-R-È-M-E- -C-H-A-N-T-I-L-L-Y.
Definition
- 1Synonyme de chantilly.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how crème chantilly appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au moment de se mettre à table pour le banquet, il imaginait le prétexte d'une colère terrible qui dispersait tout le monde en larmes dans les chambres et il demeurait seul, comme il avait voulu, devant la nappe mise avec toutes les victuailles, cuites à point, exposées dessus, qu'il dévorait jusqu'à la dernière miette de l’oie et jusqu’à la dernière cuil…
Préparez la crème chantilly : dans un saladier profond, versez la crème liquide, ajoutez la crème épaisse, la vanille et le sucre.
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.