tiramisu
French, noun/ti.ʁa.mi.su/
tiramisu is spelled T-I-R-A-M-I-S-U (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 45,502nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tiramisu is a French masculine noun meaning “tiramisu (dessert)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Dessert à base de lait d’origine italienne, composé de café, mascarpone, sucre, œufs, boudoirs et de marsala…”.
What does tiramisu mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetiramisu (dessert)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Dessert à base de lait d’origine italienne, composé de café, mascarpone, sucre, œufs, boudoirs et de marsala, d’amaretto ou de kalhua, mais avec de nombreuses variantes possibles.
noun: 1. Variante orthographique de tiramisu.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of tiramisu
- tiramisus plural
- tiramisù
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tiramisu?
- /ti.ʁa.mi.su/
- \ti.ʁa.mi.su\
- [ti.ʁa.mi.su]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tiramisu
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tiramisu in French?
tiramisu appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).