Which to use
“cade” and “cafés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #40,160
- “cade” frequency rank
- #9,443
- “cafés” frequency rank
- 49603
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | cade | cafés |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Oxycèdre. | Pluriel de café. |
Where the eye mixes cade and cafés
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence. cade runs 4 letters (CVCV) against cafés's 5 (CVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Visual trap between cade and cafés
A purely visual mix-up. cade (\kad\) and cafés (\ka.fe\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 49603, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
cade is recorded at frequency rank #40,160, classified as anoun, pronounced \kad\. cafés is at rank #9,443, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ka.fe\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 49603, this pair ranks #169,285 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of cade vs cafés
Shared letters: ac. Private to "cade": de. Private to "cafés": fsé.
"cade" · 4 letters · shape CVCV · "cafés" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- cade ← acde · cadde · caed · ccade · cdae
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "cade" and "cafés" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "cade" vs "cafés" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
Eye-level mix-up between "cade" and "cafés" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "cade" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "cafés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #169,285 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "cade" and "cafés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "cade vs conde". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #169,285 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.