crème glacée

/\kʁɛm ɡla.se\/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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crème glacée is aFrenchnoun. It means: Dessert glacé élaboré à partir de crème ou de lait, de jaunes d’œuf, d’arômes et de sucre. Pronounced \kʁɛm ɡla.se\.

Key facts for crème glacée
PropertyValue
Headwordcrème glacée
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kʁɛm ɡla.se\
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

crème glacée is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for crème glacée is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kʁɛm ɡla.se\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for crème glacée in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 glacée, spelled C-R-È-M-E- -G-L-A-C-É-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Dessert glacé élaboré à partir de crème ou de lait, de jaunes d’œuf, d’arômes et de sucre.
  2. 2
    Sorbet.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "crème glacée"?
"crème glacée" is spelled C-R-È-M-E- -G-L-A-C-É-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kʁɛm ɡla.se\.
What does "crème glacée" mean?
As a noun, "crème glacée" means: Dessert glacé élaboré à partir de crème ou de lait, de jaunes d’œuf, d’arômes et de sucre.
How do you pronounce "crème glacée"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "crème glacée" is \kʁɛm ɡla.se\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "crème glacée" come from?
"crème glacée" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.