café crème

/\ka.fe kʁɛm\/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

café crème is aFrenchnoun. It means: Café dans lequel on ajoute un peu de crème fraîche ou un nuage de lait. Pronounced \ka.fe kʁɛm\.

Key facts for café crème
PropertyValue
Headwordcafé crème
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ka.fe kʁɛm\
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

café crème is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for café crème is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.fe kʁɛm\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Café dans lequel on ajoute un peu de crème fraîche ou un nuage de lait.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for café crème in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is café crème, spelled C-A-F-É- -C-R-È-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Café dans lequel on ajoute un peu de crème fraîche ou un nuage de lait.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "café crème"?
"café crème" is spelled C-A-F-É- -C-R-È-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ka.fe kʁɛm\.
What does "café crème" mean?
As a noun, "café crème" means: Café dans lequel on ajoute un peu de crème fraîche ou un nuage de lait.
How do you pronounce "café crème"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "café crème" is \ka.fe kʁɛm\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "café crème" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.