caoua
\ka.wa\
The verdict
“caoua” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Café.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caoua · caoua · French
caoua · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | caoua |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.wa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « caoua » en français
Rare enough to double-check
caoua is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.wa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Café.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for caoua in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is caoua, spelled C-A-O-U-A.
Definition
- 1Café.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how caoua appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On se prend un p’ti caoua avant de reprendre le boulot ?
En attendant le caoua, on roule la cigarette, on bourre la pipe.
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.