cabriolet
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cabriolet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.bʁi.jɔ.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #23,125 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Voiture hippomobile légère montée sur deux roues et munie d’une capote en cuir qui peut se rabattre.
- 2Voiture automobile à deux places, souvent décapotable.
- 3Manche de couteau qui supporte plusieurs lames.
- 4Forme de cordonnier.
- 5Corde à nœuds terminée par deux morceaux de bois dont on se sert pour lier les mains de ceux qu’on arrête.
- 6Par référence au lien utilisé par la police.
- 7Chapeau de femme.
- 8Fauteuil 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"
Frequency rank: #23,125 in French
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