Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cat café

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.71 in modern English

Syllables: cat -cafe
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A café that has domestic cats with which the clientele can interact.

Example Sentences

"Taiwan opened the world’s first cat cafe in 1998 and Japan followed suit in 2004. Since then, the number of animal cafes has proliferated in Japan, where many people live in apartment buildings that forbid pets."

Inflected Forms

cat cafés (plural) cat cafe (alternative)

Questions

What does cat café mean?: A café that has domestic cats with which the clientele can interact.

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