café du commerce
\ka.fe dy kɔ.mɛʁs\
The verdict
“café du commerce” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lieu où s’échangent des ragots, qu’il s’agisse ou non d’un café.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cafe-du-commerce · café du commerce · French
café du commerce · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 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 du commerce |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.fe dy kɔ.mɛʁs\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « café du commerce » en français
Rare enough to double-check
café du commerce is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.fe dy kɔ.mɛʁs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Lieu où s’échangent des ragots, qu’il s’agisse ou non d’un café.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for café du commerce, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is café du commerce, spelled C-A-F-É- -D-U- -C-O-M-M-E-R-C-E.
Definition
- 1Lieu où s’échangent des ragots, qu’il s’agisse ou non d’un café.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how café du commerce appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quant au débat public, il tient tantôt du café du commerce, tantôt du combat idéologique, sans jamais pouvoir faire émerger un diagnostic qui permettrait aux Français de se forger une opinion raisonnable sur un sujet crucial, au moment où la lutte contre le réchauffement climatique se double d’une crise énergétique sans précédent.
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.