snack-bar
\snak.baʁ\
The verdict
“snack-bar” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit établissement de restauration bas de gamme où l’on ne sert que des mets vite faits : sandwichs, frites, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-snack-bar · snack-bar · French
snack-bar · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" 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 | snack-bar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \snak.baʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « snack-bar » en français
Rare enough to double-check
snack-bar is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \snak.baʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Petit établissement de restauration bas de gamme où l’on ne sert que des mets vite faits : sandwichs, frites, etc.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for snack-bar in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is snack-bar, spelled S-N-A-C-K---B-A-R.
Definition
- 1Petit établissement de restauration bas de gamme où l’on ne sert que des mets vite faits : sandwichs, frites, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how snack-bar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ouvrir un snack-bar, être serveuse dans un snack-bar.
Il expliqua l’avantage des snack-bars. Que les automobilistes d’aujourd’hui n’aiment pas perdre de temps dans les auberges. Qu’ils préfèrent manger sur le pouce, pendant qu’on leur fait le plein d’essence ; et que, s’ils ne veulent pas quitter leur siège, on leur porte un sandwich, avec du vin dans un gobelet de carton. Que le snack-bar, c’est l’avenir. Q…
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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.