cafétéria
French, noun
cafétéria is spelled C-A-F-É-T-É-R-I-A (9 letters) and appears 1.4 times per million words in written French, the 25,592nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cafétéria is a French feminine noun meaning “cafeteria” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, caféteria is a different word: “alternative spelling of cafétéria”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Établissement ouvert au public ayant pour principale vocation la consommation de café et autres boissons ou…”.
What does cafétéria mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininecafeteria
noun
- 1
femininealternative spelling of cafétéria
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Établissement ouvert au public ayant pour principale vocation la consommation de café et autres boissons ou prendre un repas léger. 2. Grand local d’un établissement d’enseignement ou autre où on peut manger son propre repas ou des repas servis sur place à un comptoir.
noun: 1. Établissement ouvert au public ayant pour principale vocation la consommation de café et autres boissons ou de prendre un repas léger.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cafétéria
- cafétérias plural
- caféteria alternative
- caféterias plural
- cafeteria
- cafétaria
- cafeterias plural
- cafétéria
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to cafétéria
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cafétéria in French?
cafétéria appears 1.4 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).