café
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,432
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
café is aFrenchnoun. It means: Graines de caféier, ou poudre formée de ces grains torréfiés et moulus. Pronounced \ka.fe\. It ranks #1,432 in French word frequency. Often confused with ce and cas.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | café |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.fe\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,432 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for café is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.fe\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,432 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for café, with forms such as "acfé", "cafe", and "caffé". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ce", "cas", "car", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 French form is café, spelled C-A-F-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Graines de caféier, ou poudre formée de ces grains torréfiés et moulus.
- 2Caféier.
- 3Boisson, généralement bue chaude, de couleur noir-brun, réalisée à partir de cette poudre.
- 4Portion, servie dans une tasse, de cette boisson pour une personne.
- 5Établissement, lieu public où l’on consomme des boissons plutôt non alcoolisées.
- 6Moment où l’on prend le café après le repas.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acfé,cafe,caffé,caéf,ccafé,cfaé
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for café
Misspelling Variants of "café"
Frequency rank: #1,432 in French
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