tabouret

\ta.bu.ʁɛ\

/\ta.bu.ʁɛ\/ noun

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The verdict

“tabouret” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,044. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#23,044
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit siège sans dossier ni bras, souvent avec trois ou quatre pieds.

Corpus desk

Index FR-tabouret · tabouret · French

tabouret · rank #23,044 · 11 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #23,044
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH sève

Nearest frequency peer: sève (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « tabouret »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « tabouret » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

tabouret vs tabourets
89% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for tabouret
PropertyValue
Headwordtabouret
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ta.bu.ʁɛ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#23,044
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tabouret »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).tabouretse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « sève » (#23,043), « taillée » (#23,045), « surveillent » (#23,042). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « tabouret » est au #23,044. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around tabouret (IPA \ta.bu.ʁɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #23,044 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for tabouret, with forms such as "atbouret", "tabbouret", and "taboruet". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "tabourets", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No borrowing history is documented 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 tabouret, spelled T-A-B-O-U-R-E-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Petit siège sans dossier ni bras, souvent avec trois ou quatre pieds.
  2. 2
    Siège utilisé par les duchesses pour s’asseoir en présence du roi, de la reine.
  3. 3
    Siège sur lequel étaient exposés en place publique ceux qui avaient été condamnés à une peine infamante.
  4. 4
    Dispositif de raccordement d’une canalisation au réseau.
  5. 5
    Charpente supportant la flèche d’une église.
  6. 6
    Nom donné à diverses Brassicaceae du genre Iberis, du genre Noccaea et du genre Thlaspi.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how tabouret appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. C'était en vérité un sinistre bouge : point de meubles, deux tabourets de paille à demi déformés, une planche posée sur deux ais boîteux, puis dans les coins des amas de haillons qui, à coup sûr, servaient de lit.
  2. Il nous appelle fainéants ? un crampu qui ne saurait lever ses quilles du tabouret. Mais les jambes te remonteraient jusqu'à la gruette, pauvre bouif !

Synonyms

escabeauescabellebotte-culboite de branchementregard

This word in other languages

stool(English)banqueta(Español)Hocker(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • atbouret
  • tabbouret
  • taboruet
  • tabouert
  • tabourett
  • tabourret
  • tabourte
  • tabuoret
  • taoburet
  • tbaouret
  • ttabouret

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tabouret - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

atbouret2tabbouret1taboruet2tabouert2tabourett1tabourret1tabourte2tabuoret2
Edit distance from "tabouret"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tabouret"?
"tabouret" is spelled T-A-B-O-U-R-E-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ta.bu.ʁɛ\.
What does "tabouret" mean?
As a noun, "tabouret" means: Petit siège sans dossier ni bras, souvent avec trois ou quatre pieds.
What words are commonly confused with "tabouret"?
"tabouret" is commonly confused with "tabourets". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "tabouret"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tabouret" is \ta.bu.ʁɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tabouret" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tabouret", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

torrents#23,052troubler#23,055troublée#23,056sionisme#23,029

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

silicium11 variantssaucisson11 variantsrésider11 variantsprobité11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list