estaminet
\ɛs.ta.mi.nɛ\
The verdict
“estaminet” is uncommon French (frequency #84,774 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,774
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Salle de café où l’on peut fumer en même temps que boire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-estaminet · estaminet · French
estaminet · rank #84,774 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,774
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH espada
Nearest frequency peer: espada (-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 « estaminet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ergonomiques
ergonomiques
15,231 corpus weight
- erlangen
erlangen
15,230 corpus weight
- ernotte
ernotte
15,229 corpus weight
- espada
espada
15,228 corpus weight
- estaminet
estaminet
15,227 corpus weight
- ETL
ETL
15,223 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « estaminet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | estaminet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛs.ta.mi.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #84,774 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « estaminet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
estaminet is uncommon French at frequency #84,774 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛs.ta.mi.nɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
estaminet doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is estaminet, spelled E-S-T-A-M-I-N-E-T.
Definition
- 1Salle de café où l’on peut fumer en même temps que boire.
- 2Petit café restaurant fréquenté par une clientèle populaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how estaminet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’envoyé de Belzébuth s’adressa à un cercle de buveurs assis devant la porte de l’estaminet du Grand-Saint-Laurent, patron des verriers.
Et les buveurs qui fument dans l’estaminet borgne, et la servante de l’hôtellerie qui accroche à la fenêtre un faisan mort.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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