café littéraire
The verdict
“café littéraire” 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
- 15
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Lieu de réunion où l'on parle de littérature, échange des idées, écoute des extraits de livres lus par des comédiens, assiste à des spectacles érudits tout en dégustant un café, ou autre boisson.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | café littéraire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.fe li.te.ʁɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “café littéraire” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for café littéraire is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.fe li.te.ʁɛʁ\. 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: "Lieu de réunion où l'on parle de littérature, échange des idées, écoute des extraits de livres lus par des comédiens, assiste à des spectacles érudits tout en dégustant un café, ou autre boisson.".
No misspelling variants are generated for café littéraire 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 littéraire, spelled C-A-F-É- -L-I-T-T-É-R-A-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Lieu de réunion où l'on parle de littérature, échange des idées, écoute des extraits de livres lus par des comédiens, assiste à des spectacles érudits tout en dégustant un café, ou autre boisson.
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.
Cite this page
Free to reuse with attribution (CC BY-SA). Copy the citation:
PlainSpell, “café littéraire, French word data” (May 6, 2026). Derived from Wiktionary (kaikki.org, CC BY-SA) and an open word-frequency list. https://plainspell.com/fr/mot/cafe-litteraire
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "café littéraire"?
What does "café littéraire" mean?
How do you pronounce "café littéraire"?
What language does "café littéraire" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Using “café littéraire”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-A-F-É- -L-I-T-T-É-R-A-I-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ka.fe li.te.ʁɛʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our French index: