cup of coffee
"cup-of-coffee" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cup of coffee” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The situation where a minor league player comes up to the major league team for a short period of time.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cup-of-coffee · cup of coffee · English
cup of coffee · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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 | cup of coffee |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cup of coffee” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cup of coffee is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for cup of coffee in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Based on the idea that the player was only there long enough to have a cup of coffee. The correct English form is cup of coffee, spelled C-U-P- -O-F- -C-O-F-F-E-E.
Definition
- 1The situation where a minor league player comes up to the major league team for a short period of time.
- 2One’s personal preference.
- 3An invitation to have sex.
- 4How cheap something is.
- 5Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cup, coffee.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cup of coffee appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I was up for a cup of coffee once; those were the best six days of my career.
Since social anthropology is not my cup of coffee, I leave it to the research scholars to discover the true significance of this transformation.
Etymology
Based on the idea that the player was only there long enough to have a cup of coffee.
Synonyms
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.