instant coffee
/ˌɪnstənt ˈkɒfi/
"instant-coffee" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“instant 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
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A beverage in the form of a powder, granules, or concentrated liquid, made from coffee and able to be quickly reconstituted by adding water.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | instant coffee |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌɪnstənt ˈkɒfi/ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “instant coffee” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
instant coffee is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˌɪnstənt ˈkɒfi/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A beverage in the form of a powder, granules, or concentrated liquid, made from coffee and able to be quickly reconstituted by adding water.".
instant coffee doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is instant coffee, spelled I-N-S-T-A-N-T- -C-O-F-F-E-E.
Definition
- 1A beverage in the form of a powder, granules, or concentrated liquid, made from coffee and able to be quickly reconstituted by adding water.
This word in other languages
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.
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Using “instant coffee”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is I-N-S-T-A-N-T- -C-O-F-F-E-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˌɪnstənt ˈkɒfi/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.