café con leche

/[kaˈfe kõn ˈlet͡ʃe]/ phrase

Letters

14 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

café con leche is aSpanishphrase. It means: Infusión de café a la cual se le añade leche en igual proporción a fin de suavizarla. Pronounced [kaˈfe kõn ˈlet͡ʃe].

Key facts for café con leche
PropertyValue
Headwordcafé con leche
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[kaˈfe kõn ˈlet͡ʃe]
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

café con leche is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for café con leche is 14 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaˈfe kõn ˈlet͡ʃe]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for café con leche in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is café con leche, spelled C-A-F-É- -C-O-N- -L-E-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Infusión de café a la cual se le añade leche en igual proporción a fin de suavizarla.
  2. 2
    Dícese del color análogo a esta bebida.
  3. 3
    Dicho de una persona, de color de piel mixto producto del cruce entre una persona blanca y otra de piel oscura.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "café con leche"?
"café con leche" is spelled C-A-F-É- -C-O-N- -L-E-C-H-E. The IPA pronunciation is [kaˈfe kõn ˈlet͡ʃe].
What does "café con leche" mean?
As a phrase, "café con leche" means: Infusión de café a la cual se le añade leche en igual proporción a fin de suavizarla.
How do you pronounce "café con leche"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "café con leche" is [kaˈfe kõn ˈlet͡ʃe]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "café con leche" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.