cafetier
\kaf.tje\
The verdict
“cafetier” is uncommon French (frequency #80,016 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,016
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commerçant qui vend du café tout fait, ainsi que d’autres boissons, chaudes ou froides.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cafetier · cafetier · French
cafetier · rank #80,016 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,016
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH béryllium
Nearest frequency peer: béryllium (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « cafetier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bébert
Bébert
19,987 corpus weight
- béryllium
béryllium
19,986 corpus weight
- cafetier
cafetier
19,985 corpus weight
- Calliope
Calliope
19,984 corpus weight
- Callisto
Callisto
19,983 corpus weight
- calva
calva
19,982 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cafetier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cafetier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaf.tje\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #80,016 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cafetier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cafetier is uncommon French at frequency #80,016 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kaf.tje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
cafetier doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is cafetier, spelled C-A-F-E-T-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Commerçant qui vend du café tout fait, ainsi que d’autres boissons, chaudes ou froides.
- 2Commerçant qui tient un café.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cafetier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au fait, dit le cafetier, ils peuvent bien avoir de l’argent, une fois par hasard.
Quand Yasmina rentra, sa mère lui annonça qu’on allait la marier à Mohammed Elaour, cafetier à Batna.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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