cafés du diable
The verdict
“cafés du diable” 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
- 15
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Pluriel de café du diable.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cafés du diable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.fe dy djɑbl\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cafés du diable” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cafés du diable is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.fe dy djɑbl\. 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: "Pluriel de café du diable.".
No misspelling variants are generated for cafés du diable in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is cafés du diable, spelled C-A-F-É-S- -D-U- -D-I-A-B-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de café du diable.
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 “cafés du diable”
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- The one correct French spelling is C-A-F-É-S- -D-U- -D-I-A-B-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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