grain de café

/\ɡʁɛ̃ də ka.fe\/ noun

Letters

13 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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grain de café is aFrenchnoun. It means: Graine du caféier. Pronounced \ɡʁɛ̃ də ka.fe\.

Key facts for grain de café
PropertyValue
Headwordgrain de café
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡʁɛ̃ də ka.fe\
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

grain de café is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Graine du caféier.
  2. 2
    Petite 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).
  3. 3
    Clitoris.
  4. 4
    Grain de beauté.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "grain de café"?
"grain de café" is spelled G-R-A-I-N- -D-E- -C-A-F-É. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡʁɛ̃ də ka.fe\.
What does "grain de café" mean?
As a noun, "grain de café" means: Graine du caféier.
How do you pronounce "grain de café"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "grain de café" is \ɡʁɛ̃ də ka.fe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "grain de café" come from?
"grain de café" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.