café-restaurant

\ka.fe.ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁɑ̃\

/\ka.fe.ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁɑ̃\/ noun

The verdict

“café-restaurant” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
15
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Café faisant aussi fonction de restaurant.

Corpus desk

Index FR-cafe-restaurant · café-restaurant · French

café-restaurant · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 15 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.

Key facts for café-restaurant
PropertyValue
Headwordcafé-restaurant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ka.fe.ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁɑ̃\
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « café-restaurant » en français

café-restaurantreste hors des 100.000 mots français les plus fréquents, dans la longue queue du vocabulaire technique, archaïque ou rare, là où le doute d'orthographe frappe.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

café-restaurant is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.fe.ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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

  1. 1
    Café faisant aussi fonction de restaurant.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how café-restaurant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Cape Chestnut est un café-restaurant familial, installé dans une vieille maison coloniale en bois, et dans un magnifique jardin au calme.
  2. Sous son nouvel aspect, il avait pris ses habitudes dans un café-restaurant situé juste en face de l’immeuble qui abritait l’agence de Derval, se faisant passer pour un vieil original aux manières désuètes, en vacances à Saint-Malo.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "café-restaurant"?
"café-restaurant" is spelled C-A-F-É---R-E-S-T-A-U-R-A-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ka.fe.ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁɑ̃\.
What does "café-restaurant" mean?
As a noun, "café-restaurant" means: Café faisant aussi fonction de restaurant.
How do you pronounce "café-restaurant"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "café-restaurant" is \ka.fe.ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "café-restaurant" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list