cabinet
/ˈkæb.ɪ.nɪt/noun
cabinet is spelled C-A-B-I-N-E-T. The wrong spelling people search most is cabinent: about 180 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 106 of all searches for the word. Cabinet is a noun meaning “A storage closet either separate from, or built into, a wall”. The plural of cabinet is cabinets.
How many letters and syllables are in cabinet?
| Letters | 7: C-A-B-I-N-E-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 31 times per million words; the 3,052nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, cabinent, about 180 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell cabinet?
Cabinet is spelled C-A-B-I-N-E-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 106 of the searches for cabinet in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is cabinet?
Cabinet appears 31 times per million words in written English, the 3,052nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce cabinet?
- UK /ˈkæb.ɪ.nɪt/
- US /ˈkæb.ɪ.nɪt/
- US /ˈkæb.nɪt/
Cabinet has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-cabinet.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of cabinet
- cabinets plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does cabinet mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A storage closet either separate from, or built into, a wall.
- 2
A cupboard.
- 3
A museum display case.
- 4
A source of valuable things; a storehouse.
- 5
The upright assembly that houses a coin-operated arcade game, a cab.
- 6
A size of photograph, specifically one measuring 3⅞" by 5½".
- 7
A group of advisors to a government or business entity.
- 8
In parliamentary and some other systems of government, the group of ministers responsible for creating government policy and for overseeing the departments comprising the executive branch.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Cabinet in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | armoire , cabinet |
| German | Schrank, Wandschrank, Kasten, Schrein, Aktenschrank, Gehäuse |
| Portuguese | armário , gabinete |
| Spanish | armario, gabinete, vestidor , consejo |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does cabinet come from?
From cabin + -et, influenced by French cabinet. In sense of “a government group”, compare salon, also named for a room used to gather.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).