chou cabus
\ʃu ka.by\
The verdict
“chou cabus” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variété de chou dont l’aspect lisse et rond rappelle une pomme ; c’est à partir de cette variété que l’on a créé, entre autres, les formes chou blanc, chou rouge ou chou de Brunswick.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chou-cabus · chou cabus · French
chou cabus · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chou cabus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃu ka.by\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chou cabus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chou cabus is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃu ka.by\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variété de chou dont l’aspect lisse et rond rappelle une pomme ; c’est à partir de cette variété que l’on a créé, entre autres, les formes chou blanc, chou rouge ou chou de Brunswick.".
chou cabus doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is chou cabus, spelled C-H-O-U- -C-A-B-U-S.
Definition
- 1Variété de chou dont l’aspect lisse et rond rappelle une pomme ; c’est à partir de cette variété que l’on a créé, entre autres, les formes chou blanc, chou rouge ou chou de Brunswick.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how chou cabus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Et tu es bien guéri ? — Sain comme un chou cabus.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.