cabas
\ka.ba\
The verdict
“cabas” is uncommon French (frequency #55,112 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,112
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Panier de jonc qui sert ordinairement à mettre des figues.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cabas · cabas · French
cabas · rank #55,112 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,112
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH bénéficierait
Nearest frequency peer: bénéficierait (-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 « cabas »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Buchenwald
Buchenwald
44,892 corpus weight
- butent
butent
44,891 corpus weight
- bénéficiera…
bénéficierait
44,890 corpus weight
- cabas
cabas
44,889 corpus weight
- cachots
cachots
44,888 corpus weight
- cadastral
cadastral
44,887 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cabas » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cabas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ba\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #55,112 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cabas » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cabas is uncommon French at frequency #55,112 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.ba\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 7 senses are on record.
cabas doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is cabas, spelled C-A-B-A-S.
Definition
- 1Panier de jonc qui sert ordinairement à mettre des figues.
- 2Grand panier aplati, en paille tressée, servant à porter différents objets.
- 3Panier à provisions, souvent monté sur roulettes.
- 4Cartable d'écolier.
- 5Vieille voiture à cheval, inconfortable.
- 6Chapeau de femme dont la passe n'est pas relevée.
- 7Vieux chapeau de paille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cabas appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
100 paquets de raisins secs et 200 cabas de figues.
Résignée, elle mit dans le cabas deux litres vides et s’en fut à l’auberge d’où elle revint bientôt avec le vin.
This word in other languages
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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