cafeteria
/ˌkaf.əˈtɪə.ɹi.ə/
The verdict
“cafeteria” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #55,426 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,426
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cafetería, café ₄.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cafeteria · cafeteria · Spanish
cafeteria · rank #55,426 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,426
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH caigamos
Nearest frequency peer: caigamos (+1 rank slots)
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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “cafeteria”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- bálticos
bálticos
44,578 corpus weight
- cacharro
cacharro
44,577 corpus weight
- cafeteria
cafeteria
44,575 corpus weight
- caigamos
caigamos
44,574 corpus weight
- calcita
calcita
44,573 corpus weight
- calculadas
calculadas
44,572 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “cafeteria” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cafeteria |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌkaf.əˈtɪə.ɹi.ə/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #55,426 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cafeteria” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
cafeteria is uncommon Spanish at frequency #55,426 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˌkaf.əˈtɪə.ɹi.ə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cafetería, café ₄.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for cafeteria in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is cafeteria, spelled C-A-F-E-T-E-R-I-A.
Definition
- 1Cafetería, café ₄.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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