crêpe Suzette
\kʁɛp sy.zɛt\
The verdict
“crêpe Suzette” 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
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Crêpe au beurre Suzette, c’est-à-dire une sauce à base de sucre caramélisé et de beurre, de jus de mandarine ou d’orange, de zeste et de liqueur Grand Marnier ou de Curaçao.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crêpe Suzette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁɛp sy.zɛt\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “crêpe Suzette” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for crêpe Suzette is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kʁɛp sy.zɛt\. 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: "Crêpe au beurre Suzette, c’est-à-dire une sauce à base de sucre caramélisé et de beurre, de jus de mandarine ou d’orange, de zeste et de liqueur Grand Marnier ou de Curaçao.".
No misspelling variants are generated for crêpe Suzette 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 crêpe Suzette, spelled C-R-Ê-P-E- -S-U-Z-E-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Crêpe au beurre Suzette, c’est-à-dire une sauce à base de sucre caramélisé et de beurre, de jus de mandarine ou d’orange, de zeste et de liqueur Grand Marnier ou de Curaçao.
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.
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Using “crêpe Suzette”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-R-Ê-P-E- -S-U-Z-E-T-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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