Cafateria or cafeteria?
Did you mean cafeteria? Here's the right spelling and how to remember it.
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Correct spelling: cafeteria. Misspelling: cafateria.
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Memory tip
Cafe + teria: one F, and an E after it, like cafe.
Why people write “cafateria”
The misspelling “cafateria” is only one letter off: it writes A where cafeteria has E, an easy slip because in an unstressed syllable both vowels can sound like the same soft "uh".
Spell-checkers catch the mistake in a document, but not in a handwritten note, a text message or a word game. Writing the word out a few times while saying the tricky part aloud is the quickest way to make cafeteria automatic.
Other misspellings of “cafeteria”
People also write “caffeteria”. Here is where each one goes wrong.
“caffeteria”
Correct spelling: cafeteria. Misspelling: caffeteria.
letters the misspelling gets wrong or leaves out letters that shouldn't be there
The misspelling “caffeteria” is only one letter off: it doubles the F, which cafeteria spells with just one.
What does “cafeteria” mean?
cafeteria noun
- a restaurant where you serve yourself and pay a cashier
Definitions from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Full dictionary entry
“Cafeteria” in a sentence
- We ate lunch in the school cafeteria.
Is “cafeteria” a playable word?
14 points in Scrabble · 15 in Words With Friends
- Scrabble (US)
- Scrabble (UK)
- Words With Friends
“cafateria” is not accepted in any of these games. See every word you can make from CAFETERIA.