café-restaurant
\ka.fe.ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁɑ̃\
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.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « café-restaurant » en français
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
- 1Café faisant aussi fonction de restaurant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how café-restaurant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cape Chestnut est un café-restaurant familial, installé dans une vieille maison coloniale en bois, et dans un magnifique jardin au calme.
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.