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cafecito

noun

cafecito is a noun meaning “A small hot coffee drink, particularly Cuban espresso” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-A-F-E-C-I-T-O, and it appears about once in every 98 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of cafecito is cafecitos.

What does cafecito mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A small hot coffee drink, particularly Cuban espresso.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of cafecito

  • cafecitos plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is cafecito?

Cafecito appears about once in every 98 million words in written English, the 317,168th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does cafecito come from?

Borrowed from Spanish cafecito.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).