café russe
\ka.fe ʁys\
The verdict
“café russe” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Café auquel est ajouté de la vodka.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cafe-russe · café russe · French
café russe · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 russe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.fe ʁys\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
café russe is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.fe ʁys\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for café russe, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is café russe, spelled C-A-F-É- -R-U-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Café auquel est ajouté de la vodka.
- 2Café au lait.
Synonyms
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.