Kellner
\ˈkɛlnɐ\
The verdict
“Kellner” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Garçon, garçon de café, serveur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kellner · Kellner · French
Kellner · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "K" 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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kellner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈkɛlnɐ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Kellner » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Kellner is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈkɛlnɐ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Garçon, garçon de café, serveur.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Kellner in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Kellner, spelled K-E-L-L-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Garçon, garçon de café, serveur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Kellner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Groß ist er, der Croque Monsieur, den mir der Kellner auf den kleinen Bistro-Tisch im Pariser Stadtteil Saint-Germain-des-Prés stellt.
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.