café turc
\ka.fe tyʁk\
The verdict
“café turc” 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
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Boisson à base de café en décoction, qui se boit dans les pays méditerranéens et au Moyen-Orient.
| 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) |
Where “café turc” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for café turc is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.fe tyʁk\. 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: "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.
This word in other languages
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 turc”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-A-F-É- -T-U-R-C - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ka.fe tyʁk\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.