café chantant
\ka.fe ʃɑ̃.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“café chantant” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Établissement, à l’origine du café-concert, où le public payait en consommations le plaisir d’entendre des chanteurs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cafe-chantant · café chantant · French
café chantant · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 chantant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.fe ʃɑ̃.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « café chantant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
café chantant is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.fe ʃɑ̃.tɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Établissement, à l’origine du café-concert, où le public payait en consommations le plaisir d’entendre des chanteurs.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for café chantant in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is café chantant, spelled C-A-F-É- -C-H-A-N-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Établissement, à l’origine du café-concert, où le public payait en consommations le plaisir d’entendre des chanteurs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how café chantant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ils vous diront aussi qu'on appelle « Montmartre » dans la conversation courante un boulevard extérieur semé de cafés chantants.
Au temps des cafés chantants ! Il la voyait très bien, sur les petits tréteaux de ces sortes d’établissements à la mode de Paris, fréquentés par tous les gommeux et les officiers de la ville…
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.