cabaye

\ka.baj\

/\ka.baj\/ noun

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The verdict

“cabaye” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,714. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#27,714
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
13
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Autre orthographe de cabaille.

Corpus desk

Index FR-cabaye · cabaye · French

cabaye · rank #27,714 · 8 variants · 13 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #27,714
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH calculateur

Nearest frequency peer: calculateur (+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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « cabaye »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « cabaye » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

cabaye vs câble
50% similar
cabaye vs canapé
50% similar
cabaye vs cabine
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for cabaye
PropertyValue
Headwordcabaye
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ka.baj\
Letters6
Frequency rank#27,714
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs13
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cabaye »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).cabayese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « calculateur » (#27,715), « béquilles » (#27,712), « captation » (#27,716). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « cabaye » est au #27,714. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around cabaye (IPA \ka.baj\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,714 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Autre orthographe de cabaille.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for cabaye, with forms such as "acbaye", "caabye", and "cabaey". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "câble", "canapé", "cabine", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cabaye, spelled C-A-B-A-Y-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Autre orthographe de cabaille.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how cabaye appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Son costume se compose d'une cabaye, ordinairement en grosse mousseline brochée, d'une assez longue pièce de toile placée autour des cuisses et … — (Bulletin de la Société d'histoire et d'archéologie de Nantes et de Loire-Atlantique, Volume 114, page 101, 1977)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • acbaye
  • caabye
  • cabaey
  • cabayye
  • cabbaye
  • cabyae
  • cbaaye
  • ccabaye

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cabaye - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

acbaye2caabye2cabaey2cabayye1cabbaye1cabyae2cbaaye2ccabaye1
Edit distance from "cabaye"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cabaye"?
"cabaye" is spelled C-A-B-A-Y-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ka.baj\.
What does "cabaye" mean?
As a noun, "cabaye" means: Autre orthographe de cabaille.
What words are commonly confused with "cabaye"?
"cabaye" is commonly confused with "câble", "canapé", "cabine". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "cabaye"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cabaye" is \ka.baj\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cabaye" come from?
"cabaye" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cabaye", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Celtic#27,719astral#27,700ajuste#27,685condos#27,745

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

aviaire8 variantsarrosée8 variantsconfia8 variantsacuité8 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list