cabriolet

/\ka.bʁi.jɔ.lɛ\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#23,125

in French word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

1

similar word pairs

cabriolet is aFrenchnoun. It means: Voiture hippomobile légère montée sur deux roues et munie d’une capote en cuir qui peut se rabattre. Pronounced \ka.bʁi.jɔ.lɛ\. Often confused with cambrioler.

Key facts for cabriolet
PropertyValue
Headwordcabriolet
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ka.bʁi.jɔ.lɛ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#23,125
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of cabriolet in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for cabriolet is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.bʁi.jɔ.lɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #23,125 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for cabriolet, with forms such as "acbriolet", "cabbriolet", and "cabirolet". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "cambrioler", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is cabriolet, spelled C-A-B-R-I-O-L-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Voiture hippomobile légère montée sur deux roues et munie d’une capote en cuir qui peut se rabattre.
  2. 2
    Voiture automobile à deux places, souvent décapotable.
  3. 3
    Manche de couteau qui supporte plusieurs lames.
  4. 4
    Forme de cordonnier.
  5. 5
    Corde à nœuds terminée par deux morceaux de bois dont on se sert pour lier les mains de ceux qu’on arrête.
  6. 6
    Par référence au lien utilisé par la police.
  7. 7
    Chapeau de femme.
  8. 8
    Fauteuil dont le dossier incurvé épouse la forme du dos.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: acbriolet,cabbriolet,cabirolet,cabriloet,cabrioelt,cabriolett,cabriollet,cabriolte,cabroilet,cabrriolet,carbiolet,cbariolet,ccabriolet

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cabriolet

Misspelling Variants of "cabriolet"

acbriolet9cabbriolet10cabirolet9cabriloet9cabrioelt9cabriolett10cabriollet10cabriolte9
Misspelling Variants of "cabriolet"

Frequency rank: #23,125 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cabriolet"?
"cabriolet" is spelled C-A-B-R-I-O-L-E-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ka.bʁi.jɔ.lɛ\.
What does "cabriolet" mean?
As a noun, "cabriolet" means: Voiture hippomobile légère montée sur deux roues et munie d’une capote en cuir qui peut se rabattre.
What words are commonly confused with "cabriolet"?
"cabriolet" is commonly confused with "cambrioler". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "cabriolet"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cabriolet" is \ka.bʁi.jɔ.lɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cabriolet" come from?
"cabriolet" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.