cabrer

\kɑ.bʁe\

/\kɑ.bʁe\/ verb

The verdict

“cabrer” is uncommon French (frequency #91,483 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#91,483
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire dresser sur les pieds de derrière, en parlant d’un cheval.

Corpus desk

Index FR-cabrer · cabrer · French

cabrer · rank #91,483 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #91,483
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH Cadarache

Nearest frequency peer: Cadarache (+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 « cabrer »

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for cabrer
PropertyValue
Headwordcabrer
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\kɑ.bʁe\
Letters6
Frequency rank#91,483
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « cabrer » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).cabrertombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « Cadarache » (#91,484), « bétonnière » (#91,481), « Bénouville » (#91,480). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « cabrer » est au #91,483. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

cabrer is uncommon French at frequency #91,483 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɑ.bʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 7 senses are on record.

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cabrer, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

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. The correct French form is cabrer, spelled C-A-B-R-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Faire dresser sur les pieds de derrière, en parlant d’un cheval.
  2. 2
    Action de faire augmenter l’assiette d’un aéronef.
  3. 3
    Se dresser sur les pieds de derrière, en parlant d’un cheval effarouché.
  4. 4
    Action de dresser sur la roue arrière.
  5. 5
    Se relever de l’avant, en parlant d’une chose.
  6. 6
    Heurter, provoquer, susciter l'opposition.
  7. 7
    S’emporter, se révolter contre une proposition, un conseil, une remontrance, etc.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Le cheval cabre.
  2. Elle vint s’arrêter court à deux pas de moi, et les deux bêtes, animées et tout écumantes, se cabrèrent un moment, comme si elles avaient eu le sentiment que leurs cavaliers voulaient combattre.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

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 "cabrer"?
"cabrer" is spelled C-A-B-R-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \kɑ.bʁe\.
What does "cabrer" mean?
As a verb, "cabrer" means: Faire dresser sur les pieds de derrière, en parlant d’un cheval.
How do you pronounce "cabrer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cabrer" is \kɑ.bʁe\. 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 "cabrer", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list