how to pronounce café

/ka.fe/

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café is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of café in a speech by a native speaker of standard french:

“… deux erreurs manifestes café le numéro …”

meanings of café

noun:

Coffee colour.
Public house.
Cafe, coffee shop.
Coffee (drink).

adjective:

Of the colour of coffee.

café frequency in french - A2 level of CEFR

the word café occurs in french on average 95.3 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for A2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.