cabotin
\ka.bɔ.tɛ̃\
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
- butins
butins
12,596 corpus weight
- butternut
butternut
12,595 corpus weight
- buttons
buttons
12,594 corpus weight
- béguines
béguines
12,593 corpus weight
- cabotin
cabotin
12,591 corpus weight
- cacahouète
cacahouète
12,590 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cabotin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cabotin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.bɔ.tɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #87,410 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cabotin » en français
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
- 1Comédien ambulant.
- 2Comédien sans talent.
- 3Celui qui affecte dans la vie privée des attitudes de théâtre.
- 4Marionnette.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cabotin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il nous vint une troupe de cabotins.
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.
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