café con leche
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.51 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A coffee beverage common throughout Spain and Latin America consisting of strong coffee (usually espresso) mixed with scalded milk in approximately equal amounts.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "She made thick stews from leftovers and the smells drowned out the aroma of Melena’s café con leches.[…]She was expensive, but Melena lived on café con leches and we paid her price."
- "We sit in puffy velvet armchairs near the fireplace, in a corner at Satellite Coffee across from the University of New Mexico, drinking cafés con leche."
- "Some were slumped over their café con leches in deep conversation; others were playing chess and some playing dominoes."
- "I watched as she drank two café con leches, ate three different kinds of pastry, let me win our very quick, second chess game."
- "The waiter refills their coffee cups with warm café con leches."
- "I was one of the only customers at that hour except for a few elderly men sitting morosely at the bar inside, busily reading their newspapers and dunking their croissants into their café con leches in semiautomatic movements."