ice cream

/\ajs.kʁim\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

ice cream is aFrenchnoun. It means: Crème glacée. Pronounced \ajs.kʁim\.

Key facts for ice cream
PropertyValue
Headwordice cream
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ajs.kʁim\
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

ice cream 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 ice cream is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ajs.kʁim\. 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: "Crème glacée.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ice cream 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 ice cream, spelled I-C-E- -C-R-E-A-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Crème glacée.

Synonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ice cream"?
"ice cream" is spelled I-C-E- -C-R-E-A-M. The IPA pronunciation is \ajs.kʁim\.
What does "ice cream" mean?
As a noun, "ice cream" means: Crème glacée.
How do you pronounce "ice cream"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ice cream" is \ajs.kʁim\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "ice cream" come from?
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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.