cabarévscabineTell them apart

Which to use

“cabaré” and “cabine” are a confusable Portuguese pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#26,656
“cabaré” frequency rank
#8,582
“cabine” frequency rank
35238
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature cabaré cabine
Definition casa de diversão para beber e dançar e assistir a espetáculos de variedades (dança, mágica etc.) o mesmo que cabina

Where the eye mixes cabaré and cabine

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence. cabaré and cabine follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

6 ch
cabaré
6 ch
cabine

Visual trap between cabaré and cabine

A purely visual mix-up. cabaré (/ka.ba.ˈɾɛ/) and cabine (/ka.ˈbi.nɨ/) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 35238, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

cabaré is recorded at frequency rank #26,656, classified as anoun, pronounced /ka.ba.ˈɾɛ/. cabine is at rank #8,582, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ka.ˈbi.nɨ/.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 35238, this pair ranks #31,834 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of cabaré vs cabine

Shared letters: abc. Private to "cabaré": ré. Private to "cabine": ein.

"cabaré" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV  ·  "cabine" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • cabine ← acbine · cabbine · cabien · cabinne · cabnie · caibne · cbaine · ccabine

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "cabaré" for "cabine" ever safe?
No. They are said differently (/ka.ba.ˈɾɛ/ versus /ka.ˈbi.nɨ/) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Which is more common, "cabaré" or "cabine"?
"cabine" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #8,582 in our Portuguese list, against #26,656 for "cabaré". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Eye-level mix-up between "cabaré" and "cabine" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "cabaré" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "cabine" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #31,834 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "cabaré" and "cabine" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "cabala vs cabaré". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #31,834 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list