café meringue
The verdict
“café meringue” 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
- 13
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Boisson chaude composée de café viennois et de meringue française, italienne ou suisse.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | café meringue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.fe mə.ʁɛ̃ɡ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “café meringue” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for café meringue is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.fe mə.ʁɛ̃ɡ\. 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: "Boisson chaude composée de café viennois et de meringue française, italienne ou suisse.".
No misspelling variants are generated for café meringue 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 meringue, spelled C-A-F-É- -M-E-R-I-N-G-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Boisson chaude composée de café viennois et de meringue française, italienne ou suisse.
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Using “café meringue”
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- The one correct French spelling is C-A-F-É- -M-E-R-I-N-G-U-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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