café à la russe
\ka.fe a la ʁys\
The verdict
“café à la russe” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Café russe
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | café à la russe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.fe a la ʁys\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “café à la russe” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
café à la russe is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.fe a la ʁys\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Café russe".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for café à la russe, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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 documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is café à la russe, spelled C-A-F-É- -À- -L-A- -R-U-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Café russe
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 à la russe”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-A-F-É- -À- -L-A- -R-U-S-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ka.fe a la ʁys\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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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.