cabotin

\ka.bɔ.tɛ̃\

/\ka.bɔ.tɛ̃\/ noun

The verdict

“cabotin” is uncommon French (frequency #87,410 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#87,410
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords

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

Corpus desk

Index FR-cabotin · cabotin · French

cabotin · rank #87,410 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #87,410
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH cacahouète

Nearest frequency peer: cacahouète (+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 « cabotin »

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 « cabotin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for cabotin
PropertyValue
Headwordcabotin
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ka.bɔ.tɛ̃\
Letters7
Frequency rank#87,410
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « cabotin » en français

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

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « cacahouète » (#87,411), « béguines » (#87,408), « buttons » (#87,407). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « cabotin » est au #87,410. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

cabotin is uncommon French at frequency #87,410 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.bɔ.tɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.

No misspelling variants are generated for cabotin in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is cabotin, spelled C-A-B-O-T-I-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Comédien ambulant.
  2. 2
    Comédien sans talent.
  3. 3
    Celui qui affecte dans la vie privée des attitudes de théâtre.
  4. 4
    Marionnette.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Il nous vint une troupe de cabotins.
  2. Le rapide entre dans la nuit comme dans un tunnel de douze heures et halète pour la franchir. C’est le plus rapide des rapides du soir, c’est une force de la nature, il emporte avec lui comme un orage des germes de toutes les énergies, des boutures de toutes les races. S’il versait sa cargaison dans une plaine, il y naîtrait peut-être une fabuleuse New Yo…

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 "cabotin"?
"cabotin" is spelled C-A-B-O-T-I-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ka.bɔ.tɛ̃\.
What does "cabotin" mean?
As a noun, "cabotin" means: Comédien ambulant.
How do you pronounce "cabotin"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cabotin" is \ka.bɔ.tɛ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list