cabasse
\ka.bas\
The verdict
“cabasse” is uncommon French (frequency #90,501 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,501
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait du subjonctif de caber.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cabasse · cabasse · French
cabasse · rank #90,501 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,501
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cabanons
Nearest frequency peer: cabanons (-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 « cabasse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- burkinabés
burkinabés
9,503 corpus weight
- bâiller
bâiller
9,502 corpus weight
- cabanons
cabanons
9,501 corpus weight
- cabasse
cabasse
9,500 corpus weight
- Cabestany
Cabestany
9,499 corpus weight
- Caliban
Caliban
9,497 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cabasse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cabasse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ka.bas\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #90,501 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cabasse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cabasse is uncommon French at frequency #90,501 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ka.bas\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait du subjonctif de caber.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for cabasse, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 cabasse, spelled C-A-B-A-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait du subjonctif de caber.
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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