caboose
/kəˈbuːs/
"caboose" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“caboose” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #47,513. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,513
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A small galley or cookhouse on the deck of a small vessel.
Corpus desk
Index EN-caboose · caboose · English
caboose · rank #47,513 · 9 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #47,513
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH caballero
Nearest frequency peer: caballero (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “caboose”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
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butterscotch
52,491 corpus weight
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caballero
52,489 corpus weight
- caboose
caboose
52,488 corpus weight
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Caesarean
52,487 corpus weight
- cair
cair
52,486 corpus weight
- calcareous
calcareous
52,485 corpus weight
What this shows “caboose” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caboose |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kəˈbuːs/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #47,513 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “caboose”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around caboose (IPA /kəˈbuːs/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,513 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for caboose, with forms such as "acboose", "cabboose", and "cabooes". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "choose", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Dutch kabuis, kombuis (“galley, kitchen”) or German Low German Kabüüs (“galley”), from Middle Dutch cabûse and Middle Low German kabûs, kabûse respectively. Cognate with German Kabüse, Kombüse, Danish kabys, Swedish kabyss, French combuse (< Middle Dut… The correct English form is caboose, spelled C-A-B-O-O-S-E.
Definition
- 1A small galley or cookhouse on the deck of a small vessel.
- 2A small sand-filled container used as an oven on board ship.
- 3The last car on a freight train, consisting of cooking and sleeping facilities for the crew; a guard’s van.
- 4The buttocks.
- 5The person or team in last place.
- 6A youngest child who is born after a long gap in time.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how caboose appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On the second day out, while sailing moderately on our course in the Gulf Stream, a sudden squall of wind struck the ship from the SW. and knocked her completely on her beam-ends, stove one of our boats, entirely destroyed two others, and threw down the cambouse.
This stove is to be made in the form of a Franklin, but is to be furnished with an oven, and other means of cooking; its appearance is therefore more like that of the old fashioned caboose, than of a Franklin stove.
Etymology
From Dutch kabuis, kombuis (“galley, kitchen”) or German Low German Kabüüs (“galley”), from Middle Dutch cabûse and Middle Low German kabûs, kabûse respectively. Cognate with German Kabüse, Kombüse, Danish kabys, Swedish kabyss, French combuse (< Middle Dutch kabuys). Probably related to English boose (“a stall or shed”).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acboose
- cabboose
- cabooes
- caboosse
- cabose
- cabosoe
- caobose
- cbaoose
- ccaboose
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of caboose - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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