cabinet
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "cabinet", 7-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "cabinet" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "cabinet" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
cabinet is aEnglishnoun. It means: A storage closet either separate from, or built into, a wall. Pronounced /ˈkæb.ɪ.nɪt/. It ranks #3,044 in English word frequency. Often confused with canine and carbine.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cabinet |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkæb.ɪ.nɪt/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,044 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for cabinet is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈkæb.ɪ.nɪt/. Corpus data places it at rank #3,044 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 14 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for cabinet, with forms such as "acbinet", "cabbinet", and "cabient". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "canine", "carbine", "clarinet", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From cabin + -et, influenced by French cabinet. In sense of “a government group”, compare salon, also named for a room used to gather. 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 cabinet, spelled C-A-B-I-N-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1A storage closet either separate from, or built into, a wall.
- 2A cupboard.
- 3A museum display case.
- 4A source of valuable things; a storehouse.
- 5The upright assembly that houses a coin-operated arcade game, a cab.
- 6A size of photograph, specifically one measuring 3⅞" by 5½".
- 7A group of advisors to a government or business entity.
- 8In 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.
- 9In 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.
- 10A small chamber or private room.
- 11A collection of art or ethnographic objects.
- 12Milkshake.
- 13A hut; a cottage; a small house.
- 14An enclosure for mechanical or electrical equipment.
Etymology
From cabin + -et, influenced by French cabinet. In sense of “a government group”, compare salon, also named for a room used to gather.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acbinet,cabbinet,cabient,cabinett,cabinnet,cabinte,cabniet,caibnet,cbainet,ccabinet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cabinet
Misspelling Variants of "cabinet"
Frequency rank: #3,044 in English
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