cabbage

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The English entry for cabbage is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈkæb.ɪd͡ʒ/. Corpus data places it at rank #13,878 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for cabbage, with forms such as "acbbage", "cababge", and "cabage". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "cabbie", "carnage", "cabbages", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: Etymology tree Old French caboce Anglo-Norman cabochebor. Middle English caboche English cabbage From Middle English caboche, cabage (“cabbage”; “a certain fish”), a borrowing from Anglo-Norman caboche (“head”), a northern variant of caboce, of uncertain or… Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is cabbage, spelled C-A-B-B-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.