tomate cerise

\tɔ.mat sə.ʁiz\

/\tɔ.mat sə.ʁiz\/ noun

The verdict

“tomate cerise” 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) - Nom donné aux variétés de tomates dont la taille des fruits est sensiblement celle d’une cerise.

Key facts for tomate cerise
PropertyValue
Headwordtomate cerise
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tɔ.mat sə.ʁiz\
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “tomate cerise” sits in French frequency

tomate cerise falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for tomate cerise is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɔ.mat sə.ʁiz\. 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: "Nom donné aux variétés de tomates dont la taille des fruits est sensiblement celle d’une cerise.".

No misspelling variants are generated for tomate cerise 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 tomate cerise, spelled T-O-M-A-T-E- -C-E-R-I-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom donné aux variétés de tomates dont la taille des fruits est sensiblement celle d’une cerise.

This word in other languages

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tomate cerise"?
"tomate cerise" is spelled T-O-M-A-T-E- -C-E-R-I-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \tɔ.mat sə.ʁiz\.
What does "tomate cerise" mean?
As a noun, "tomate cerise" means: Nom donné aux variétés de tomates dont la taille des fruits est sensiblement celle d’une cerise.
How do you pronounce "tomate cerise"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tomate cerise" is \tɔ.mat sə.ʁiz\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tomate cerise" come from?
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Using “tomate cerise”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is T-O-M-A-T-E- -C-E-R-I-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \tɔ.mat sə.ʁiz\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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