cabinet

/\ka.bi.nɛ\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,028

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

13

similar word pairs

cabinet is aFrenchnoun. It means: Petite pièce retirée. Pronounced \ka.bi.nɛ\. It ranks #2,028 in French word frequency. Often confused with Canet and carnet.

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)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for cabinet is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.bi.nɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,028 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for cabinet, with forms such as "acbinet", "cabbinet", and "cabient". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "Canet", "carnet", "canine", 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 cabinet, spelled C-A-B-I-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
    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.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: acbinet,cabbinet,cabient,cabinett,cabinnet,cabinte,cabniet,caibnet,cbainet,ccabinet

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cabinet

Misspelling Variants of "cabinet"

acbinet7cabbinet8cabient7cabinett8cabinnet8cabinte7cabniet7caibnet7
Misspelling Variants of "cabinet"

Frequency rank: #2,028 in French

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 covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.