café
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#931
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
café is aPortuguesenoun. It means: fruto gerado pelo cafeeiro Pronounced /kɐ.ˈfɛ/. It ranks #931 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with ce and cão.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | café |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kɐ.ˈfɛ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #931 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for café is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /kɐ.ˈfɛ/. Corpus data places it at rank #931 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for café, with forms such as "acfé", "caffé", and "caéf". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ce", "cão", "can", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is café, spelled C-A-F-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1fruto gerado pelo cafeeiro
- 2designação comum às plantas do gênero Coffea, de que se extraem frutos comestíveis utilizados no preparo da bebida do café
- 3bebida feita ao se coar a semente torrada e moída do café¹ com água
- 4o grão inteiro ou o pó de grãos moídos do café¹
- 5local em que se serve a bebida do café ou outras bebidas, além de refeições leves
- 6primeira refeição realizada pela manhã
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acfé,caffé,caéf,ccafé,cfaé
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for café
Misspelling Variants of "café"
Frequency rank: #931 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Portuguese index: