cafeto
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 ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cafeto |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaˈfet̪o] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cafeto” sits in Spanish frequency
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(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.
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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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