caboche

\ka.bɔʃ\

/\ka.bɔʃ\/ noun

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The verdict

“caboche” is uncommon French (frequency #70,449 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#70,449
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords

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

Corpus desk

Index FR-caboche · caboche · French

caboche · rank #70,449 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #70,449
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH cagnottes

Nearest frequency peer: cagnottes (+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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « caboche »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « caboche » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for caboche
PropertyValue
Headwordcaboche
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ka.bɔʃ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#70,449
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « caboche » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.cabochetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « cagnottes » (#70,450), « bétonné » (#70,447), « caillasse » (#70,451). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « caboche » est au #70,449. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

caboche is uncommon French at frequency #70,449 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.bɔʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for caboche, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is caboche, spelled C-A-B-O-C-H-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Tête.
  2. 2
    Cerveau, intelligence, pensée.
  3. 3
    Personnage têtu, voire borné.
  4. 4
    Clou à grosse tête dont on ferrait les souliers et les sabots. → voir clou à sabot.
  5. 5
    Tête de feuilles de tabac réunies en bouquet.
  6. 6
    Nom vernaculaire de la chevêchette d'Europe ou chouette chevêchette.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Monsieur, vous avez une tête puissante, une caboche que ces messieurs nomment la tête chevaline : il y a du cheval dans la tête de tous les grands hommes.
  2. Un peu plus loin, les magots chinois en robes violettes remuaient leurs caboches vénérables, comme pour approuver ce qu’avaient dit les bergers : « Oui… oui… tu vendras de la porcelaine !… »

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 "caboche"?
"caboche" is spelled C-A-B-O-C-H-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ka.bɔʃ\.
What does "caboche" mean?
As a noun, "caboche" means: Tête.
How do you pronounce "caboche"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "caboche" is \ka.bɔʃ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "caboche" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

bétonné#70,447bombées#70,437boitant#70,434bielles#70,429

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list