cafeté
\kaf.te\
The verdict
“cafeté” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ajouté de café.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cafete · cafeté · French
cafeté · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cafeté |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kaf.te\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cafeté » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cafeté is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kaf.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
cafeté has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is cafeté, spelled C-A-F-E-T-É.
Definition
- 1Ajouté de café.
- 2D’une couleur café.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cafeté appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En voici la preuve donnée par elle-même [Mme de Sévigné] : « Nous avons ici de bon lait et de bonnes vaches; nous sommes en fantaisie de faire bien écrémer ce bon lait et de le mêler avec du sucre et de bon café. Ma chère enfant, […]. N’aimerez-vous pas ce lait cafeté ou ce café laité ? »
Selon lui [Philippe Sylvestre Dufour], il protège en outre contre l’hydropisie, la gravelle et la goutte. […] Quant aux maladies de poitrine, y compris la phtisie, il n’est rien de pareil pour les traiter que le « lait cafeté » ou café au lait.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.