cabernet

/\ka.bɛʁ.nɛ\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#29,262

in French word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

6

similar word pairs

cabernet is aFrenchnoun. It means: Cépage donnant des grappes de petits grains d'un noir bleuté. C'est une espèce de vigne très cultivée en France, elle est appelée cabernet franc au catalogue officiel des espèces, mais cabernet tou... Pronounced \ka.bɛʁ.nɛ\. Often confused with carnet and cabinet.

Key facts for cabernet
PropertyValue
Headwordcabernet
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ka.bɛʁ.nɛ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#29,262
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of cabernet in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for cabernet is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.bɛʁ.nɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #29,262 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Cépage donnant des grappes de petits grains d'un noir bleuté. C'est une espèce de vigne très cultivée en France, elle est appelée cabernet franc au catalogue officiel des espèces, mais cabernet tou...".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for cabernet, with forms such as "acbernet", "cabbernet", and "cabenret". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "carnet", "cabinet", "caserne", 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 cabernet, spelled C-A-B-E-R-N-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Cépage donnant des grappes de petits grains d'un noir bleuté. C'est une espèce de vigne très cultivée en France, elle est appelée cabernet franc au catalogue officiel des espèces, mais cabernet tout cour dans de nombreux ouvrages. Ne pas la confondre avec le cabernet sauvignon.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: acbernet,cabbernet,cabenret,caberent,cabernett,cabernnet,cabernte,caberrnet,cabrenet,caebrnet,cbaernet,ccabernet

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cabernet

Misspelling Variants of "cabernet"

acbernet8cabbernet9cabenret8caberent8cabernett9cabernnet9cabernte8caberrnet9
Misspelling Variants of "cabernet"

Frequency rank: #29,262 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cabernet"?
"cabernet" is spelled C-A-B-E-R-N-E-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ka.bɛʁ.nɛ\.
What does "cabernet" mean?
As a noun, "cabernet" means: Cépage donnant des grappes de petits grains d'un noir bleuté. C'est une espèce de vigne très cultivée en France, elle est appelée cabernet franc au catalogue officiel des espèces, mais cabernet tou...
What words are commonly confused with "cabernet"?
"cabernet" is commonly confused with "carnet", "cabinet", "caserne". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "cabernet"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cabernet" is \ka.bɛʁ.nɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cabernet" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.