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 September 3, 2026) - heißes Mischgetränk aus Milch und Kaffee
Corpus desk
Index DE-cafe-au-lait · Café au Lait · German
Café au Lait · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| 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) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Café au Lait“ im Deutschen
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
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Café au Lait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Wir tranken einen Café au Lait in einem gemütlichen Café.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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.