fève de café
\fɛv də ka.fe\
The verdict
“fève de café” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Graine de la cerise du caféier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-feve-de-cafe · fève de café · French
fève de café · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" 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 | fève de café |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɛv də ka.fe\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
fève de café is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \fɛv də ka.fe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Graine de la cerise du caféier.".
No misspelling variants are generated for fève de café in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is fève de café, spelled F-È-V-E- -D-E- -C-A-F-É.
Definition
- 1Graine de la cerise du caféier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fève de café appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Son fond sera percé de trous d’une telle grandeur, que la plus petite fève de café dépouillée de son parchemin ne puisse passer au travers ; & ces trous seront rapprochés, de manière qu’il n’y ait pas plus de plein que de vide.
La fève de café est soumise à une torréfaction ; on la moud ensuite pour la convertir en poudre sur laquelle on verse de l’eau bouillante pour obtenir ainsi une infusion qui est consommée comme boisson.
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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.