cabotinage
French, noun/ka.bɔ.ti.naʒ/
cabotinage is spelled C-A-B-O-T-I-N-A-G-E (10 letters) and appears about once in every 14 million words in written French, the 121,051st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cabotinage is a French masculine noun meaning “affectedness” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Métier ou façons de cabotin”.
What does cabotinage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineaffectedness
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Métier ou façons de cabotin.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cabotinage
- cabotinages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cabotinage?
- /ka.bɔ.ti.naʒ/
- \ka.bɔ.ti.naʒ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is cabotinage in French?
cabotinage appears about once in every 14 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).