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 September 3, 2026) - Café russe
Corpus desk
Index FR-cafe-a-la-russe · café à la russe · French
café à la russe · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 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 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « café à la russe » en français
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
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