entremets
\ɑ̃.tʁə.mɛ\
The verdict
“entremets” is uncommon French (frequency #70,604 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,604
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ce qui, dans un repas, se sert après le rôti ou le fromage et avant le dessert.
Corpus desk
Index FR-entremets · entremets · French
entremets · rank #70,604 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,604
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH entassées
Nearest frequency peer: entassées (-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 « entremets »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- engelures
engelures
29,401 corpus weight
- enjoindre
enjoindre
29,400 corpus weight
- enrichissan…
enrichissantes
29,399 corpus weight
- entassées
entassées
29,398 corpus weight
- entremets
entremets
29,397 corpus weight
- entretenons
entretenons
29,396 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « entremets » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | entremets |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.tʁə.mɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #70,604 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « entremets » en français
Rare enough to double-check
entremets is uncommon French at frequency #70,604 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.tʁə.mɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
entremets doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is entremets, spelled E-N-T-R-E-M-E-T-S.
Definition
- 1Ce qui, dans un repas, se sert après le rôti ou le fromage et avant le dessert.
- 2Dessert.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how entremets appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’entremets aujourd’hui est généralement un plat sucré.
Cependant, au second service, lorsque les rôtis et les entremets eurent pris la place des relevés et des entrées et que les grands vins de Bourgogne, le Pommard, le Chambertin, succédèrent au Léoville et au Château-Laffitte, le bruit des voix grandit, des éclats de rire firent tinter les cristaux légers.
Synonyms
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.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).