café con leche
[kaˈfe kõn ˈlet͡ʃe]
The verdict
“café con leche” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a phrase. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Infusión de café a la cual se le añade leche en igual proporción a fin de suavizarla.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cafe-con-leche · café con leche · Spanish
café con leche · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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 | café con leche |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [kaˈfe kõn ˈlet͡ʃe] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “café con leche” en español
Rare enough to double-check
café con leche is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as aphrase, transcribed [kaˈfe kõn ˈlet͡ʃe]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for café con leche, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is café con leche, spelled C-A-F-É- -C-O-N- -L-E-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Infusión de café a la cual se le añade leche en igual proporción a fin de suavizarla.
- 2Dícese del color análogo a esta bebida.
- 3Dicho de una persona, de color de piel mixto producto del cruce entre una persona blanca y otra de piel oscura.
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.