garçon de café

noun

The verdict

“garçon de 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
14
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Employé masculin qui assure le service dans un bar, un café, voire une brasserie.

Corpus desk

Index FR-garcon-de-cafe · garçon de café · French

garçon de café · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 14 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "G" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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.

Key facts for garçon de café
PropertyValue
Headwordgarçon de café
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « garçon de café » en français

garçon de cafén'entre pas dans le top 100.000 du français: zone de termes techniques, archaïques ou rares.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

garçon de café is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Employé masculin qui assure le service dans un bar, un café, voire une brasserie.".

garçon de café has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, 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 read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is garçon de café, spelled G-A-R-Ç-O-N- -D-E- -C-A-F-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Employé masculin qui assure le service dans un bar, un café, voire une brasserie.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how garçon de café appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Les petits hommes [des communiants], pareils à des embryons de garçons de café, la tête encollée de pommade, marchaient les jambes écartées, pour ne point tacher leur culotte noire.
  2. — Vieillard, je suis sérieux comme un garçon de café qui présente la note...

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "garçon de café"?
"garçon de café" is spelled G-A-R-Ç-O-N- -D-E- -C-A-F-É.
What does "garçon de café" mean?
As a noun, "garçon de café" means: Employé masculin qui assure le service dans un bar, un café, voire une brasserie.
What language does "garçon de café" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list