cabriolet
/kæ.bɹi.əˈleɪ/
"cabriolet" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cabriolet” is uncommon English (frequency #62,025 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,025
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An automobile with a retractable top.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cabriolet · cabriolet · English
cabriolet · rank #62,025 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,025
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH bussy
Nearest frequency peer: bussy (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “cabriolet”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Bronwyn
Bronwyn
37,983 corpus weight
- Bruckner
Bruckner
37,982 corpus weight
- Burgas
Burgas
37,979 corpus weight
- bussy
bussy
37,977 corpus weight
- cabriolet
cabriolet
37,976 corpus weight
- cantonal
cantonal
37,970 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “cabriolet” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cabriolet |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kæ.bɹi.əˈleɪ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #62,025 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cabriolet” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cabriolet is uncommon English at frequency #62,025 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kæ.bɹi.əˈleɪ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for cabriolet in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French cabriolet. The correct English form is cabriolet, spelled C-A-B-R-I-O-L-E-T.
Definition
- 1An automobile with a retractable top.
- 2A light two- or four-wheeled carriage with a folding top, pulled by a single horse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cabriolet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bodywise, the car suffers from the demon rust badly, too. Look at the wings, the door bottoms, boot, and, on cabriolets especially, the inner doors and door pillar rears.
Of late years, cabriolets, and English stanhopes, and tilburys, have been introduced into St. Petersburgh; but the real national carriage for the town is the Droshky.
Etymology
Borrowed from French cabriolet.
This word in other languages
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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