grain de café
Letters
13 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
grain de café is aFrenchnoun. It means: Graine du caféier. Pronounced \ɡʁɛ̃ də ka.fe\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grain de café |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁɛ̃ də ka.fe\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for grain de café is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁɛ̃ də ka.fe\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for grain de café in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is grain de café, spelled G-R-A-I-N- -D-E- -C-A-F-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Graine du caféier.
- 2Petite porcelaine avec trois, voire quatre, tâches sombres sur la coquille. Commune dans l’Océan Atlantique, elle vit dans la zone de marée et les zones rocheuses (Trivia monacha).
- 3Clitoris.
- 4Grain de beauté.
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