cabale
\ka.bal\
The verdict
“cabale” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,505. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,505
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tradition parmi les juifs substituant un sens mystique et allégorique au sens propre de l’Ancien Testament.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cabale · cabale · French
cabale · rank #30,505 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,505
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH béquille
Nearest frequency peer: béquille (-2 rank slots)
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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « cabale »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Burt
Burt
69,500 corpus weight
- bâtisseurs
bâtisseurs
69,499 corpus weight
- béquille
béquille
69,498 corpus weight
- cabale
cabale
69,496 corpus weight
- caniveau
caniveau
69,494 corpus weight
- Capri
Capri
69,493 corpus weight
What this shows « cabale » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | cabale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.bal\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #30,505 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cabale »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around cabale (IPA \ka.bal\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,505 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for cabale, with forms such as "acbale", "caable", and "cabael". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cale", "canal", "cible", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is cabale, spelled C-A-B-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Tradition parmi les juifs substituant un sens mystique et allégorique au sens propre de l’Ancien Testament.
- 2Science prétendant entrer en relation avec les êtres élémentaires tels que gnomes, sylphes, etc.
- 3Complot pour nuire à autrui.
- 4Groupe de personnes animant un complot.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cabale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les docteurs de la cabale.
Termes de cabale.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acbale
- caable
- cabael
- caballe
- cabbale
- cablae
- cbaale
- ccabale
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cabale - 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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).