café express
\ka.fe ɛks.pʁɛs\
The verdict
“café express” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Café expresso
Corpus desk
Index FR-cafe-express · café express · French
café express · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 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 express |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.fe ɛks.pʁɛs\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « café express » en français
Rare enough to double-check
café express is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.fe ɛks.pʁɛs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Café expresso".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for café express, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is café express, spelled C-A-F-É- -E-X-P-R-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1Café expresso
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