Café au Lait
[kafeoˈlɛ]
The verdict
“Café au Lait” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - heißes Mischgetränk aus Milch und Kaffee
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Café au Lait |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kafeoˈlɛ] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Café au Lait” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Café au Lait is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [kafeoˈlɛ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "heißes Mischgetränk aus Milch und Kaffee".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Café au Lait, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Café au Lait, spelled C-A-F-É- -A-U- -L-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1heißes Mischgetränk aus Milch und Kaffee
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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 “Café au Lait”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is C-A-F-É- -A-U- -L-A-I-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [kafeoˈlɛ] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.