café de pissenlit

/\ka.fe də pi.sɑ̃.li\/ noun

The verdict

“café de pissenlit” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
17
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Infusion préparée à partir des racines séchées du pissenlit.

Key facts for café de pissenlit
PropertyValue
Headwordcafé de pissenlit
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ka.fe də pi.sɑ̃.li\
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “café de pissenlit” sits in French frequency

café de pissenlit falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for café de pissenlit is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.fe də pi.sɑ̃.li\. 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: "Infusion préparée à partir des racines séchées du pissenlit.".

No misspelling variants are generated for café de pissenlit in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 de pissenlit, spelled C-A-F-É- -D-E- -P-I-S-S-E-N-L-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Infusion préparée à partir des racines séchées du pissenlit.

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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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "café de pissenlit"?
"café de pissenlit" is spelled C-A-F-É- -D-E- -P-I-S-S-E-N-L-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ka.fe də pi.sɑ̃.li\.
What does "café de pissenlit" mean?
As a noun, "café de pissenlit" means: Infusion préparée à partir des racines séchées du pissenlit.
How do you pronounce "café de pissenlit"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "café de pissenlit" is \ka.fe də pi.sɑ̃.li\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “café de pissenlit”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is C-A-F-É- -D-E- -P-I-S-S-E-N-L-I-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \ka.fe də pi.sɑ̃.li\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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