cabrer
\kɑ.bʁe\
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
- bussi
bussi
8,523 corpus weight
- Bénouville
Bénouville
8,521 corpus weight
- bétonnière
bétonnière
8,520 corpus weight
- cabrer
cabrer
8,518 corpus weight
- Cadarache
Cadarache
8,517 corpus weight
- cadière
cadière
8,515 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cabrer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cabrer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɑ.bʁe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #91,483 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cabrer » en français
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
- 1Faire dresser sur les pieds de derrière, en parlant d’un cheval.
- 2Action de faire augmenter l’assiette d’un aéronef.
- 3Se dresser sur les pieds de derrière, en parlant d’un cheval effarouché.
- 4Action de dresser sur la roue arrière.
- 5Se relever de l’avant, en parlant d’une chose.
- 6Heurter, provoquer, susciter l'opposition.
- 7S’emporter, se révolter contre une proposition, un conseil, une remontrance, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cabrer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le cheval cabre.
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.
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