cabasset
\ka.ba.sɛ\
The verdict
“cabasset” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de casque, morion.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cabasset · cabasset · French
cabasset · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cabasset |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ba.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cabasset » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cabasset is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.ba.sɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
cabasset has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is cabasset, spelled C-A-B-A-S-S-E-T.
Definition
- 1Sorte de casque, morion.
- 2Soldat portant ce type de casque.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cabasset appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À Rome les reîtres portaient un cabasset.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.