cabussada

/[kaβyˈsaðo̞]/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

cabussada is aFrenchnoun. It means: Plongée, action de plonger ou de se plonger, de piquer une tête. Pronounced [kaβyˈsaðo̞].

Key facts for cabussada
PropertyValue
Headwordcabussada
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA[kaβyˈsaðo̞]
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

cabussada is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for cabussada is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaβyˈsaðo̞]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for cabussada in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 cabussada, spelled C-A-B-U-S-S-A-D-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Plongée, action de plonger ou de se plonger, de piquer une tête.
  2. 2
    Cérémonie que pratiquaient les femmes juives après leur menstruation et avant de cohabiter avec leur maris, et qui consiste à se plonger dans l’eau jusqu’au cou et à y tremper ensuite trois fois la tête.
  3. 3
    Immersion dans la mer, supplice qu’on infligeait autrefois à Marseille aux blasphémateurs, au moyen d’un panier et d’une poulie.
  4. 4
    Provin de vigne.
  5. 5
    Culbute, revers, ruine.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cabussada"?
"cabussada" is spelled C-A-B-U-S-S-A-D-A. The IPA pronunciation is [kaβyˈsaðo̞].
What does "cabussada" mean?
As a noun, "cabussada" means: Plongée, action de plonger ou de se plonger, de piquer une tête.
How do you pronounce "cabussada"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cabussada" is [kaβyˈsaðo̞]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cabussada" come from?
"cabussada" 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. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.