cabane
\ka.ban\
The verdict
“cabane” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,442. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,442
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite maison grossièrement construite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cabane · cabane · French
cabane · rank #9,442 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,442
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH bœuf
Nearest frequency peer: bœuf (-1 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “cabane”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- brésilienne
brésilienne
90,562 corpus weight
- bénéficiair…
bénéficiaires
90,561 corpus weight
- bœuf
bœuf
90,560 corpus weight
- cabane
cabane
90,559 corpus weight
- cafés
cafés
90,558 corpus weight
- calcaire
calcaire
90,557 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “cabane” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | cabane |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ban\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,442 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “cabane” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around cabane (IPA \ka.ban\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,442 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for cabane, with forms such as "acbane", "caabne", and "cabaen". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cane", "crâne", "câble", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is cabane, spelled C-A-B-A-N-E.
Definition
- 1Petite maison grossièrement construite.
- 2Abri pour les animaux, poules, lapins, etc.
- 3Petit abri construit à partir de matériaux rudimentaires (bois, terre, glace).
- 4Prison.
- 5Maison longue amérindienne.
- 6Abri amovible, à plancher troué, conçu spécialement pour la pêche blanche.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cabane appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
M. Norman ordonna alors de mettre le feu à la cabane du chef et à quelques autres.
Ils avaient une maison à eux. […]. Oh ! une vraie cabane ! couverte de chaume, bâtie en pisé, fermée par des volets qui claquaient au vent ; […].
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acbane
- caabne
- cabaen
- cabanne
- cabbane
- cabnae
- cbaane
- ccabane
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cabane - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cabane", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "cabane". Here's where to go from here.
- "cabane" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "cane". View pair
- 8 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #9,442 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "C" letter cohort. C–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.