cabinet

\ka.bi.nɛ\

/\ka.bi.nɛ\/ noun

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The verdict

“cabinet” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,028. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#2,028
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
13
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite pièce retirée.

Corpus desk

Index FR-cabinet · cabinet · French

cabinet · rank #2,028 · 10 variants · 13 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,028
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH blancs

Nearest frequency peer: blancs (-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 « cabinet »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « cabinet » 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).

cabinet vs Canet
57% similar
cabinet vs carnet
71% similar
cabinet vs canine
71% similar

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

Key facts for cabinet
PropertyValue
Headwordcabinet
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ka.bi.nɛ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#2,028
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs13
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cabinet »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).cabinetse place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « blancs » (#2,027), « cap » (#2,029), « bilan » (#2,026). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « cabinet » est au #2,028. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around cabinet (IPA \ka.bi.nɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,028 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 10 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for cabinet, with forms such as "acbinet", "cabbinet", and "cabient". 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, "Canet", "carnet", "canine", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is cabinet, spelled C-A-B-I-N-E-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Petite pièce retirée.
  2. 2
    Toilettes.
  3. 3
    Pièce tranquille où l’on travaille.
  4. 4
    Local qui accueille des professions libérales.
  5. 5
    Ensemble des collaborateurs d’un ministre.
  6. 6
    Ministres qui forment le conseil du gouvernement.
  7. 7
    Lieu où l’on place, où l’on expose des objets d’étude ou de curiosité, tels que livres, tableaux, médailles, productions naturelles, etc.
  8. 8
    Collections qui y sont entreposées.
  9. 9
    Meuble, buffet à multiples compartiments et tiroirs servant à ranger les objets précieux.
  10. 10
    Petit lieu couvert dans un jardin et formé de treillage, de maçonnerie ou de verdure.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Marguerite tira alors de son aumônière une petite clef dorée, ouvrit la porte du cabinet et montra du doigt le jeune homme à sa suivante.
  2. Le “cabinet”, au XVllᵉ siècle, était simplement une pièce réservée pour un usage défini, et ne comportait nullement l’idée de dimension restreinte.

Synonyms

toilettes

This word in other languages

toilet(English)excusado(Español)Abort(Deutsch)privada(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • acbinet
  • cabbinet
  • cabient
  • cabinett
  • cabinnet
  • cabinte
  • cabniet
  • caibnet
  • cbainet
  • ccabinet

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cabinet - 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.

acbinet2cabbinet1cabient2cabinett1cabinnet1cabinte2cabniet2caibnet2
Edit distance from "cabinet"

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 "cabinet"?
"cabinet" is spelled C-A-B-I-N-E-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ka.bi.nɛ\.
What does "cabinet" mean?
As a noun, "cabinet" means: Petite pièce retirée.
What words are commonly confused with "cabinet"?
"cabinet" is commonly confused with "Canet", "carnet", "canine". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "cabinet"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cabinet" is \ka.bi.nɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cabinet" come from?
"cabinet" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

classes#2,030devenue#2,033disparu#2,034donnent#2,035

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

blancs10 variantsamoureux10 variantsToulouse10 variantsemplois10 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list