cafre
The verdict
“cafre” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #82,694 in Spanish word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #82,694
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Natural de o relativo a las naciones bantúes que habitaban la región oriental de la actual Sudáfrica, que los conquistadores británicos llamaron Cafrería.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cafre |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈkafɾe] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #82,694 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cafre” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cafre is 5 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkafɾe]. Corpus data places it at rank #82,694 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for cafre 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 cafre, spelled C-A-F-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Natural de o relativo a las naciones bantúes que habitaban la región oriental de la actual Sudáfrica, que los conquistadores británicos llamaron Cafrería.
- 2Dicho de una persona, de gusto vulgar o inferior, y hábitos incultos.
- 3Dicho de una cosa, propia de alguien cafre₂
- 4De hábitos salvajes o crueles.
- 5Bárbaro, bestia, animal, bruto, cruel, atroz, salvaje, rudo, brusco, grosero
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #82,694 in Spanish
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Using “cafre”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-A-F-R-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈkafɾe] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Spanish index: