cáften

noun

The verdict

“cáften” is uncommon Portuguese (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency Portuguese
6
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - cafetão, gigolô, proxeneta

Corpus desk

Index PT-caften · cáften · Portuguese

cáften · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "C" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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.

Key facts for cáften
PropertyValue
Headwordcáften
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters6
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “cáften” em português

cáftenfica fora das 100.000 palavras portuguesas mais frequentes, na cauda longa de vocabulário técnico, arcaico ou raro, onde a dúvida ortográfica aperta.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

cáften is uncommon Portuguese outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "cafetão, gigolô, proxeneta".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cáften, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is cáften, spelled C-Á-F-T-E-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    cafetão, gigolô, proxeneta

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. "Em Buenos Aires fez-se inculcador de casas suspeitas, porteiro do mesmo gênero, cáften, barítono de café cantante, preso."

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cáften"?
"cáften" is spelled C-Á-F-T-E-N.
What does "cáften" mean?
As a noun, "cáften" means: cafetão, gigolô, proxeneta
What language does "cáften" come from?
"cáften" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list