Which to use
“cafés” and “cape” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #9,443
- “cafés” frequency rank
- #10,465
- “cape” frequency rank
- 19908
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | cafés | cape |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Pluriel de café. | Vêtement de dessus ample et sans manches. |
Where the eye mixes cafés and cape
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence. cafés runs 5 letters (CVCVC) against cape's 4 (CVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Look-alike desk: cafés vs cape
A purely visual mix-up. cafés (\ka.fe\) and cape (\kap\) 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 19908, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
cafés is recorded at frequency rank #9,443, classified as anoun, pronounced \ka.fe\. cape is at rank #10,465, tagged as anoun, pronounced \kap\.
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 19908, this pair ranks #370,923 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of cafés vs cape
Shared letters: ac. Private to "cafés": fsé. Private to "cape": ep.
"cafés" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC · "cape" · 4 letters · shape CVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
- cape ← acpe · caep · cappe · ccape · cpae
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "cafés" and "cape" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "cafés" or "cape"?
What to do next
Eye-level mix-up between "cafés" and "cape" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "cafés" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "cape" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #370,923 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "cafés" and "cape" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "cape vs CCE". 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 #370,923 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.