cabine
\ka.bin\
The verdict
“cabine” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,535. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,535
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite chambre à coucher, à bord d’un bateau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cabine · cabine · French
cabine · rank #7,535 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,535
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH bâti
Nearest frequency peer: bâti (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “cabine”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- brillante
brillante
92,469 corpus weight
- brûlé
brûlé
92,468 corpus weight
- bâti
bâti
92,467 corpus weight
- cabine
cabine
92,466 corpus weight
- capitalisme
capitalisme
92,465 corpus weight
- cassation
cassation
92,464 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “cabine” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cabine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.bin\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #7,535 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “cabine” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around cabine (IPA \ka.bin\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,535 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for cabine, with forms such as "acbine", "cabbine", and "cabien". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ciné", "cane", "Caïn", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is cabine, spelled C-A-B-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Petite chambre à coucher, à bord d’un bateau.
- 2Petite chambre, chambrette, petite pièce isolée.
- 3Espace clos aménagé dans un camion, un véhicule tracteur de semi-remorque, un train, une locomotive ou autre engin de transport, où le conducteur dispose de tous les instruments nécessaires au maniement de l’engin.
- 4Sorte de cage close dans laquelle sont transportés les utilisateurs d’un ascenseur ou d’un téléphérique.
- 5Espace des passagers et des bagages à main dans un avion.
- 6Petite chambre à coucher à bord d’un aéronat.
- 7Blague reçue négativement par un groupe de plusieurs personnes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cabine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’écris ces lignes dans la cabine du Firecrest. Le teck et le bois d’érable brillent.
Elle était demeurée longtemps debout devant ces hautes coques dont les hublots laissaient voir l’intérieur des cabines éclairées.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acbine
- cabbine
- cabien
- cabinne
- cabnie
- caibne
- cbaine
- ccabine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cabine - 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.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cabine", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "cabine". Here's where to go from here.
- "cabine" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "ciné". View pair
- 8 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #7,535 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "C" letter cohort. C–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.