cafetière italienne
The verdict
“cafetière italienne” 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
- 19
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Ustensile de cuisine de forme verticale caractéristique, destiné à préparer le café par percolation sous pression au moyen d'une source de chaleur externe, composée d'une chambre inférieure remplie...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cafetière italienne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaf.tjɛ.ʁ‿i.ta.ljɛn\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cafetière italienne” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cafetière italienne is 19 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kaf.tjɛ.ʁ‿i.ta.ljɛn\. 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: "Ustensile de cuisine de forme verticale caractéristique, destiné à préparer le café par percolation sous pression au moyen d'une source de chaleur externe, composée d'une chambre inférieure remplie...".
No misspelling variants are generated for cafetière italienne 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 cafetière italienne, spelled C-A-F-E-T-I-È-R-E- -I-T-A-L-I-E-N-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ustensile de cuisine de forme verticale caractéristique, destiné à préparer le café par percolation sous pression au moyen d'une source de chaleur externe, composée d'une chambre inférieure remplie d'eau, d'une chambre intermédiaire où l'on met les grains de café moulus puis d’une chambre supérieure où est recueilli le café prêt à boire.
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Using “cafetière italienne”
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- The one correct French spelling is C-A-F-E-T-I-È-R-E- -I-T-A-L-I-E-N-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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