café-restaurant
\ka.fe.ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“café-restaurant” 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
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Café faisant aussi fonction de restaurant.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | café-restaurant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.fe.ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “café-restaurant” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for café-restaurant is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.fe.ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁɑ̃\. 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: "Café faisant aussi fonction de restaurant.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for café-restaurant, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is café-restaurant, spelled C-A-F-É---R-E-S-T-A-U-R-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Café faisant aussi fonction de restaurant.
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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Using “café-restaurant”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-A-F-É---R-E-S-T-A-U-R-A-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ka.fe.ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁɑ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.