cafetière

\kaf.tjɛʁ\

/\kaf.tjɛʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“cafetière” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,470. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#28,470
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Appareil où l’on prépare l’infusion de café ; machine à café.

Corpus desk

Index FR-cafetiere · cafetière · French

cafetière · rank #28,470 · 13 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #28,470
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH béret

Nearest frequency peer: béret (-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 « cafetière »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « cafetière » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

cafetière vs cimetière
78% similar
cafetière vs canebière
78% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for cafetière
PropertyValue
Headwordcafetière
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kaf.tjɛʁ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#28,470
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cafetière »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).cafetièrese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « béret » (#28,469), « canots » (#28,471), « cardiovasculaires » (#28,472). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « cafetière » est au #28,470. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around cafetière (IPA \kaf.tjɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,470 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for cafetière, with forms such as "acfetière", "caeftière", and "cafeitère". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "cimetière", "canebière", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is cafetière, spelled C-A-F-E-T-I-È-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Appareil où l’on prépare l’infusion de café ; machine à café.
  2. 2
    Récipient où l’on verse cette infusion pour la servir.
  3. 3
    Commerçante qui vend du café tout fait, ainsi que d’autres boissons, chaudes ou froides.
  4. 4
    Commerçante qui tient un café.
  5. 5
    Femme qui aime à boire du café.
  6. 6
    Tête.
  7. 7
    Cafard, mouchard, délateur.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how cafetière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Depuis qu’il était seul, Jean ne mangeait plus chez lui, et dans la cuisine il n’y avait qu’une cafetière métallique, enrobée dans du marc de café. Jean prenait beaucoup de café, et ne lavait jamais la cafetière.
  2. Elle avait mis la bouilloire et la cafetière en route et elle glissait des tranches de pain dans le toaster.

This word in other languages

coffeemaker(English)cafetera(Español)Kaffeemaschine(Deutsch)cafeteira(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • acfetière
  • caeftière
  • cafeitère
  • cafetiere
  • cafetirèe
  • cafetièer
  • cafetièrre
  • cafettière
  • cafetèire
  • caffetière
  • cafteière
  • ccafetière
  • cfaetière

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cafetière - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

acfetière2caeftière2cafeitère2cafetiere1cafetirèe2cafetièer2cafetièrre1cafettière1
Edit distance from "cafetière"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cafetière"?
"cafetière" is spelled C-A-F-E-T-I-È-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kaf.tjɛʁ\.
What does "cafetière" mean?
As a noun, "cafetière" means: Appareil où l’on prépare l’infusion de café ; machine à café.
What words are commonly confused with "cafetière"?
"cafetière" is commonly confused with "cimetière", "canebière". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "cafetière"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cafetière" is \kaf.tjɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cafetière" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cafetière", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

comparent#28,492approchée#28,447comparées#28,493accordait#28,429

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

betteraves13 variantscompacts13 variantsconseillez13 variantscourgettes13 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list