cafeto

/[kaˈfet̪o]/ noun

The verdict

“cafeto” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency Spanish
6
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: (Coffea spp) Arbusto de la familia de las Rubiáceas, cultivado, de dos a tres metros; en estado salvaje alcanza normalmente los 12 m y puede llegar incluso a los 20 m en algunas variedades; tronco ...

Key facts for cafeto
PropertyValue
Headwordcafeto
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[kaˈfet̪o]
Letters6
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “cafeto” sits in Spanish frequency

cafeto falls outside the top-100,000 ranked Spanish words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for cafeto is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaˈfet̪o]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "(Coffea spp) Arbusto de la familia de las Rubiáceas, cultivado, de dos a tres metros; en estado salvaje alcanza normalmente los 12 m y puede llegar incluso a los 20 m en algunas variedades; tronco ...".

No misspelling variants are generated for cafeto in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. 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 cafeto, spelled C-A-F-E-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    (Coffea spp) Arbusto de la familia de las Rubiáceas, cultivado, de dos a tres metros; en estado salvaje alcanza normalmente los 12 m y puede llegar incluso a los 20 m en algunas variedades; tronco recto y liso; hojas perennes, sencillas, opuestas, en pares, de un verde brillante; flores blancas, fragantes, axilares, duran un par de días; el fruto es una drupa (una cereza), ovalada, un poco aplanada, de unos 15 cm, verde, que va cambiando al amarillo y rojo al madurar en los ocho u once meses que dura; semilla doble separada por un surco: el grano de café.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cafeto"?
"cafeto" is spelled C-A-F-E-T-O. The IPA pronunciation is [kaˈfet̪o].
What does "cafeto" mean?
As a noun, "cafeto" means: (Coffea spp) Arbusto de la familia de las Rubiáceas, cultivado, de dos a tres metros; en estado salvaje alcanza normalmente los 12 m y puede llegar incluso a los 20 m en algunas variedades; tronco ...
How do you pronounce "cafeto"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cafeto" is [kaˈfet̪o]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cafeto" come from?
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Using “cafeto”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Spanish spelling is C-A-F-E-T-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as [kaˈfet̪o] (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.