Cabanis
\ka.ba.nis\
The verdict
“Cabanis” is uncommon French (frequency #60,616 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,616
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille. Attesté en France ^([Ins]).
Corpus desk
Index FR-cabanis · Cabanis · French
Cabanis · rank #60,616 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,616
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH bémols
Nearest frequency peer: bémols (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Cabanis »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- butane
butane
39,388 corpus weight
- bémols
bémols
39,386 corpus weight
- Cabanis
Cabanis
39,385 corpus weight
- calembour
calembour
39,384 corpus weight
- camorra
camorra
39,383 corpus weight
- canis
canis
39,382 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Cabanis » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cabanis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ka.ba.nis\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #60,616 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Cabanis » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Cabanis is uncommon French at frequency #60,616 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ka.ba.nis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille. Attesté en France ^([Ins]).".
Cabanis doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Cabanis, spelled C-A-B-A-N-I-S.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille. Attesté en France ^([Ins]).
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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