cabinet de curiosités

/\ka.bi.net də ky.ʁjo.zi.te\/ noun

Letters

21 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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tracked variants

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similar word pairs

cabinet de curiosités is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pièce où sont exposés des objets collectionnés, avec un certain goût pour l’hétéroclisme et l’inédit. Pronounced \ka.bi.net də ky.ʁjo.zi.te\.

Key facts for cabinet de curiosités
PropertyValue
Headwordcabinet de curiosités
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ka.bi.net də ky.ʁjo.zi.te\
Letters21
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

cabinet de curiosités is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for cabinet de curiosités is 21 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.bi.net də ky.ʁjo.zi.te\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pièce où sont exposés des objets collectionnés, avec un certain goût pour l’hétéroclisme et l’inédit.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for cabinet de curiosités in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 de curiosités, spelled C-A-B-I-N-E-T- -D-E- -C-U-R-I-O-S-I-T-É-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pièce où sont exposés des objets collectionnés, avec un certain goût pour l’hétéroclisme et l’inédit.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cabinet de curiosités"?
"cabinet de curiosités" is spelled C-A-B-I-N-E-T- -D-E- -C-U-R-I-O-S-I-T-É-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ka.bi.net də ky.ʁjo.zi.te\.
What does "cabinet de curiosités" mean?
As a noun, "cabinet de curiosités" means: Pièce où sont exposés des objets collectionnés, avec un certain goût pour l’hétéroclisme et l’inédit.
How do you pronounce "cabinet de curiosités"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cabinet de curiosités" is \ka.bi.net də ky.ʁjo.zi.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cabinet de curiosités" come from?
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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.