cabale
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#30,505
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cabale is aFrenchnoun. It means: Tradition parmi les juifs substituant un sens mystique et allégorique au sens propre de l’Ancien Testament. Pronounced \ka.bal\. Often confused with cale and canal.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cabale is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.bal\. Corpus data places it at rank #30,505 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for cabale, with forms such as "acbale", "caable", and "cabael". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cale", "canal", "cible", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is cabale, spelled C-A-B-A-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acbale,caable,cabael,caballe,cabbale,cablae,cbaale,ccabale
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "cabale"
Frequency rank: #30,505 in French
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