café turc
\ka.fe tyʁk\
The verdict
“café turc” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Boisson à base de café en décoction, qui se boit dans les pays méditerranéens et au Moyen-Orient.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cafe-turc · café turc · French
café turc · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 turc |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.fe tyʁk\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « café turc » en français
Rare enough to double-check
café turc is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.fe tyʁk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Boisson à base de café en décoction, qui se boit dans les pays méditerranéens et au Moyen-Orient.".
Zero misspellings are on record for café turc in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 turc, spelled C-A-F-É- -T-U-R-C.
Definition
- 1Boisson à base de café en décoction, qui se boit dans les pays méditerranéens et au Moyen-Orient.
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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.