cabillaud
\ka.bi.jo\
The verdict
“cabillaud” is uncommon French (frequency #57,801 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,801
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom donné à la morue fraîche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cabillaud · cabillaud · French
cabillaud · rank #57,801 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,801
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Bérégovoy
Nearest frequency peer: Bérégovoy (-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 « cabillaud »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bukowski
Bukowski
42,203 corpus weight
- bâtissent
bâtissent
42,202 corpus weight
- Bérégovoy
Bérégovoy
42,201 corpus weight
- cabillaud
cabillaud
42,200 corpus weight
- cairns
cairns
42,199 corpus weight
- calibrage
calibrage
42,197 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cabillaud » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cabillaud |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.bi.jo\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,801 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cabillaud » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cabillaud is uncommon French at frequency #57,801 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.bi.jo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom donné à la morue fraîche.".
cabillaud has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is cabillaud, spelled C-A-B-I-L-L-A-U-D.
Definition
- 1Nom donné à la morue fraîche.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cabillaud appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] ; le soudac peut subir les mêmes préparations que le merlan et cabillaud, c'est à dire à la hollandaise, au gratin, frit, en entrées froides et chaudes très variées, quenelles, soufflés, etc., etc.
Pêle-mêle, au hasard du coup de filet, les algues profondes, où dort la vie mystérieuse des grandes eaux, avaient tout livré : les cabillauds, les aigrefins, les carrelets, les plies.
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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