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 May 6, 2026) - Infusión de café a la cual se le añade leche en igual proporción a fin de suavizarla.
| 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) |
Where “café con leche” sits in Spanish frequency
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.
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Using “café con leche”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-A-F-É- -C-O-N- -L-E-C-H-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [kaˈfe kõn ˈlet͡ʃe] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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.