cabochard
\ka.bɔ.ʃaʁ\
The verdict
“cabochard” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a mauvaise tête, en parlant d’un animal, généralement un cheval, un chien ou un âne qui a du mal à obéir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cabochard · cabochard · French
cabochard · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 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 | cabochard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.bɔ.ʃaʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
cabochard is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ka.bɔ.ʃaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for cabochard in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is cabochard, spelled C-A-B-O-C-H-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Qui a mauvaise tête, en parlant d’un animal, généralement un cheval, un chien ou un âne qui a du mal à obéir.
- 2Têtu, qui n’en fait qu’à sa tête.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cabochard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Malgré son trench-coat vert bouteille, son chapeau avachi et sa tête de cheval cabochard, il avait l'air d'un instituteur en balade avec les premiers de sa classe.
Quatre filles telles que nous, c’est donc si difficile à caser, à planter solidement quelque part ?… Ni méchantes, ni bêtes, ni laides, un peu cabochardes seulement…
Synonyms
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.