jabot
/ˈʒæ.bəʊ/noun
jabot is a noun meaning “A cascading or ornamental frill down the front of a blouse, shirt, etc” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled J-A-B-O-T and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 48 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of jabot is jabots.
What does jabot mean?
noun
- 1
A cascading or ornamental frill down the front of a blouse, shirt, etc.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce jabot?
- UK /ˈʒæ.bəʊ/
Jabot has 2 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-jabot.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of jabot
- jabots plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is jabot?
Jabot appears about once in every 48 million words in written English, the 214,628th 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).
Jabot in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a cascading or ornamental frill down the front of a blouse:
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 jabot come from?
Borrowed from French jabot.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).