café

/kɐ.ˈfɛ/

//kɐ.ˈfɛ// noun

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The verdict

“café” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #931. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#931
frequency rank, Portuguese
2,140
“C” headwords
5
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - fruto gerado pelo cafeeiro

Corpus desk

Index PT-cafe · café · Portuguese

café · rank #931 · 5 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-CORE #931
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 5 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,140
  • PHOTO-FINISH cabelo

Nearest frequency peer: cabelo (-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.

Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “café”

Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho

corpus weight

What this shows “café” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

café vs ce
25% similar
café vs cão
25% similar
café vs can
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for café
PropertyValue
Headwordcafé
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/kɐ.ˈfɛ/
Letters4
Frequency rank#931
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequência do íman ortográfico “café”

Da esquerda para a direita: o pouco que carrega a fala diária, depois a cauda longa quase invisível.cafécai aqui:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

A escala é logarítmica (cada marca ≈ 10× mais rara). Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “cabelo” (#930), “cultural” (#932), “aumento” (#929). Entre 2,140 lemas com “C”, “café” fica em #931. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 5 spelling variants around café (IPA /kɐ.ˈfɛ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #931 among 2,140 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for café, with forms such as "acfé", "caffé", and "caéf". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ce", "cão", "can", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is café, spelled C-A-F-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    fruto gerado pelo cafeeiro
  2. 2
    designação comum às plantas do gênero Coffea, de que se extraem frutos comestíveis utilizados no preparo da bebida do café
  3. 3
    bebida feita ao se coar a semente torrada e moída do café¹ com água
  4. 4
    o grão inteiro ou o pó de grãos moídos do café¹
  5. 5
    local em que se serve a bebida do café ou outras bebidas, além de refeições leves
  6. 6
    primeira refeição realizada pela manhã

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how café appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. O campus da USP em Ribeirão Preto foi criado há mais de 50 anos numa antiga fazenda de café.
  2. O treinador, então, tomou um copo de café e conversou com o preparador físico Mauro Brito, que vai assinar a súmula da partida.

Synonyms

cafeeirocafezeirocafeteriacafé da manhã

This word in other languages

coffee(English)café(Español)café(Français)Kaffee(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • acfé
  • caffé
  • caéf
  • ccafé
  • cfaé

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of café - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

acfé2caffé1caéf2ccafé1cfaé2
Edit distance from "café"

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 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "café"?
"café" is spelled C-A-F-É. The IPA pronunciation is /kɐ.ˈfɛ/.
What does "café" mean?
As a noun, "café" means: fruto gerado pelo cafeeiro
What words are commonly confused with "café"?
"café" is commonly confused with "ce", "cão", "can". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "café"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "café" is /kɐ.ˈfɛ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "café" come from?
"café" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "café", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

fogo#938irmã#939John#898zona#979

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).

massa5 variantscama5 variantsnota5 variantsleva5 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list