Campus

/[ˈkampʊs]/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#6,905

in German word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

10

similar word pairs

Campus is aGermannoun. It means: Gelände, auf dem sich Gebäude und weitere Anlagen einer Universität befinden Pronounced [ˈkampʊs]. It ranks #6,905 in German word frequency. Often confused with caps and CPUs.

Key facts for Campus
PropertyValue
HeadwordCampus
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈkampʊs]
Letters6
Frequency rank#6,905
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of Campus in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Campus is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkampʊs]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,905 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Gelände, auf dem sich Gebäude und weitere Anlagen einer Universität befinden".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for Campus, with forms such as "acmpus", "cammpus", and "camppus". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "caps", "CPUs", "corpus", and more, 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 German form is Campus, spelled C-A-M-P-U-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Gelände, auf dem sich Gebäude und weitere Anlagen einer Universität befinden

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: acmpus,cammpus,camppus,campsu,campuss,camups,capmus,ccampus,cmapus

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Campus

Misspelling Variants of "Campus"

acmpus6cammpus7camppus7campsu6campuss7camups6capmus6ccampus7
Misspelling Variants of "Campus"

Frequency rank: #6,905 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Campus"?
"Campus" is spelled C-A-M-P-U-S. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈkampʊs].
What does "Campus" mean?
As a noun, "Campus" means: Gelände, auf dem sich Gebäude und weitere Anlagen einer Universität befinden
What words are commonly confused with "Campus"?
"Campus" is commonly confused with "caps", "CPUs", "corpus". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Campus"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Campus" is [ˈkampʊs]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Campus" come from?
"Campus" is a German 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. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.