cabochon
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#71,321
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
cabochon is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pierre précieuse qu’on n’a fait que polir sans la tailler. Pronounced \ka.bɔ.ʃɔ̃\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cabochon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.bɔ.ʃɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #71,321 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cabochon is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.bɔ.ʃɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #71,321 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for cabochon 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 cabochon, spelled C-A-B-O-C-H-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pierre précieuse qu’on n’a fait que polir sans la tailler.
- 2Qualifie une pierre précieuse traitée en cabochon.
- 3Clou à tête ornementée employé surtout en ameublement.
- 4Pièce amovible du clavier sur laquelle figure un signe typographique.
- 5Maladroit, sans-dessein, idiot.
- 6Tête.
- 7Vignette, petit dessin plus ou moins triangulaire placé à la fin d’un chapitre.
Synonyms
Frequency rank: #71,321 in French
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