caféine
\ka.fe.in\
The verdict
“caféine” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,878. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,878
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Composé chimique dérivé triméthylé de la xanthine et principe actif du café aux effets stimulants sur le système nerveux central.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cafeine · caféine · French
caféine · rank #21,878 · 10 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,878
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH bronzage
Nearest frequency peer: bronzage (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « caféine »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bris
bris
78,126 corpus weight
- Britney
Britney
78,125 corpus weight
- bronzage
bronzage
78,124 corpus weight
- caféine
caféine
78,123 corpus weight
- caissière
caissière
78,122 corpus weight
- Caracas
Caracas
78,121 corpus weight
What this shows « caféine » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caféine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.fe.in\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #21,878 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « caféine »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around caféine (IPA \ka.fe.in\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,878 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Composé chimique dérivé triméthylé de la xanthine et principe actif du café aux effets stimulants sur le système nerveux central.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for caféine, with forms such as "acféine", "cafeine", and "cafféine". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "canine", "Carine", "carène", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is caféine, spelled C-A-F-É-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Composé chimique dérivé triméthylé de la xanthine et principe actif du café aux effets stimulants sur le système nerveux central.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how caféine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Caféine. — Existe dans beaucoup de plantes, café, thé, cola, maté, guarana.
Les industriels se sont acharnés, à coups de tests sur des cohortes de rats, à démontrer que les boissons énergisantes enrichies en substances excitantes comme la caféine, la taurine ou le glucuronolactone étaient inoffensives. — (« Sodas : Sugarland, baby », Malbouffe, le dico, Les Dossiers du Canard enchaîné nᵒ 147, avril 2018, page 74)
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acféine
- cafeine
- cafféine
- cafiéne
- caféien
- caféinne
- cafénie
- caéfine
- ccaféine
- cfaéine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of caféine - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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