cuillère à café
\kɥi.jɛ.ʁ‿a ka.fe\
The verdict
“cuillère à café” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Petite cuillère pour touiller un liquide (thé, café, etc.) pour en dissoudre le sucre ou pour en accélérer le refroidissement.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cuillère à café |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɥi.jɛ.ʁ‿a ka.fe\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cuillère à café” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
cuillère à café is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɥi.jɛ.ʁ‿a ka.fe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
cuillère à café has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 cuillère à café, spelled C-U-I-L-L-È-R-E- -À- -C-A-F-É.
Definition
- 1Petite cuillère pour touiller un liquide (thé, café, etc.) pour en dissoudre le sucre ou pour en accélérer le refroidissement.
- 2Mesure de volume définie par la contenance d'une cuillère à café (généralement environ 3 ou 5 ml).
Synonyms
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 “cuillère à café”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-U-I-L-L-È-R-E- -À- -C-A-F-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kɥi.jɛ.ʁ‿a ka.fe\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.