nescafé
\nɛs.ka.fe\
The verdict
“nescafé” is uncommon French (frequency #86,959 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,959
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Boisson obtenue avec du café instantané.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nescafe · nescafé · French
nescafé · rank #86,959 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,959
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH Neyret
Nearest frequency peer: Neyret (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « nescafé »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- napolitaines
napolitaines
13,046 corpus weight
- nasses
nasses
13,045 corpus weight
- navetteurs
navetteurs
13,044 corpus weight
- nescafé
nescafé
13,042 corpus weight
- Neyret
Neyret
13,041 corpus weight
- Nikolay
Nikolay
13,039 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nescafé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nescafé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nɛs.ka.fe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #86,959 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nescafé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nescafé is uncommon French at frequency #86,959 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \nɛs.ka.fe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Boisson obtenue avec du café instantané.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for nescafé in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is nescafé, spelled N-E-S-C-A-F-É.
Definition
- 1Boisson obtenue avec du café instantané.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nescafé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quatre heures plus tard donc, bouches pâteuses, estomacs noués, le corps encore moulu des courbatures de la veille, nos "Hemingways" du pauvre avalaient en vitesse des nescafés brûlants à la lueur vacillante de lampes à pétrole.
À feu doux, comme celui qui se consume en ce moment dans la cuisine et qui me servira à me préparer un bon nescafé … Je prends mon nescafé et décide de repriser des chemises …
Synonyms
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.
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