crémerie

\kʁɛm.ʁi\

/\kʁɛm.ʁi\/ noun

The verdict

“crémerie” is uncommon French (frequency #86,592 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#86,592
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de crèmerie.

Corpus desk

Index FR-cremerie · crémerie · French

crémerie · rank #86,592 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #86,592
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH crématoires

Nearest frequency peer: crématoires (-1 rank slots)

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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « crémerie »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « crémerie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for crémerie
PropertyValue
Headwordcrémerie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kʁɛm.ʁi\
Letters8
Frequency rank#86,592
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « crémerie » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).crémerietombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « crématoires » (#86,591), « cupules » (#86,593), « crucis » (#86,589). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « crémerie » est au #86,592. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

crémerie is uncommon French at frequency #86,592 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁɛm.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante orthographique de crèmerie.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for crémerie in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is crémerie, spelled C-R-É-M-E-R-I-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Variante orthographique de crèmerie.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how crémerie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. C’était, dans le haut de la rue Pigalle, non loin de la brasserie Fontaine, une espèce de crémerie disparue aujourd’hui.
  2. En sortant de la crémerie je me suis trouvé dans le froid gris sec, qui me paraît une indulgence des choses, presque une promesse, alors qu’on ne saurait vivre à la fois selon la nature et selon le bien.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "crémerie"?
"crémerie" is spelled C-R-É-M-E-R-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kʁɛm.ʁi\.
What does "crémerie" mean?
As a noun, "crémerie" means: Variante orthographique de crèmerie.
How do you pronounce "crémerie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "crémerie" is \kʁɛm.ʁi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "crémerie" come from?
"crémerie" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "crémerie", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list