cabaret
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,126
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
cabaret is aFrenchnoun. It means: Taverne où l’on vend en détail du vin et des boissons spiritueuses et où l’on vend aussi à manger. Pronounced \ka.ba.ʁɛ\. Often confused with cabaye and cabinet.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cabaret |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ba.ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #13,126 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cabaret is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.ba.ʁɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #13,126 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for cabaret, with forms such as "acbaret", "caabret", and "cabaert". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "cabaye", "cabinet", "cabernet", 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 cabaret, spelled C-A-B-A-R-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Taverne où l’on vend en détail du vin et des boissons spiritueuses et où l’on vend aussi à manger.
- 2Taverne où l’on vend en détail du vin et des boissons spiritueuses et où l’on vend aussi à manger.
- 3Établissement où l’on se réunit pour entendre des chansons satiriques ou politiques.
- 4Plateau à bord relevés ou petite table utilisé pour servir des boissons.
- 5Plateau de self-service, tout particulièrement dans les cafétérias et autres établissements de restauration rapide.
- 6Porte-liqueurs, cave à liqueurs.
- 7Assortiment des tasses qu’on met sur le plateau.
- 8Sur un bateau, sorte de plateau destiné à fixer sur une table les assiettes et les couverts pour les empêcher de tomber.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acbaret,caabret,cabaert,cabarett,cabarret,cabarte,cabbaret,cabraet,cbaaret,ccabaret
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cabaret
Misspelling Variants of "cabaret"
Frequency rank: #13,126 in French
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