Which to use
“cafés” and “caunes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #9,443
- “cafés” frequency rank
- #41,696
- “caunes” frequency rank
- 51139
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | cafés | caunes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Pluriel de café. | Pluriel de caune. |
Where the eye mixes cafés and caunes
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence. cafés runs 5 letters (CVCVC) against caunes's 6 (CVVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Look-alike desk: cafés vs caunes
A purely visual mix-up. cafés (\ka.fe\) and caunes (\kon\) 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 51139, 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\. caunes is at rank #41,696, tagged as anoun, pronounced \kon\.
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 51139, this pair ranks #157,280 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of cafés vs caunes
Shared letters: acs. Private to "cafés": fé. Private to "caunes": enu.
"cafés" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC · "caunes" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- caunes ← acunes · canues · cauens · cauness · caunnes · caunse · ccaunes · cuanes
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "cafés" and "caunes" be used interchangeably?
Frequency check: "cafés" vs "caunes" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.
- Full dictionary entry for "cafés" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "caunes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #157,280 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "cafés" and "caunes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "caunes vs causses". 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 #157,280 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.