cabillot
\ka.bi.jo\
The verdict
“cabillot” 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 goupille de bois pour fixer les cordages.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cabillot · cabillot · French
cabillot · 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 | cabillot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.bi.jo\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
cabillot is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.bi.jo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for cabillot in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cabillot, spelled C-A-B-I-L-L-O-T.
Definition
- 1Sorte de goupille de bois pour fixer les cordages.
- 2Bout de bois des herses.
- 3Cheville des chouquets, de la balancine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cabillot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tout cela est primitif et cependant j'aperçois un gouvernail à roue, des poulies en bois de gayac, des rocambeaux à chapelet et des cabillots en cuivre.
Pour dégréer un perroquet, on défrappe les écoutes, on les amarre sur les barres ; on défrappe également les cargues-points et la cargue-fond, on les dépasse de leurs poulies et on les amarre, les cargues-points aux pitons du chouc du mât de hune, la cargue-fond sur l’avant ; on décapelle les boulines de leurs cabillots, et on les fixe tribord et bâbord s…
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.