campedvscampoWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: camped is a verb, campo is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“camped” is a verb and “campo” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#20,308
“camped” frequency rank
#33,972
“campo” frequency rank
54280
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature camped campo
Definition simple past and past participle of camp A police officer assigned to a university campus.

Letter map: camped vs campo

Shared letters muted; letters that set camped and campo apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. camped runs 6 letters (CVCCVC) against campo's 5 (CVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
camped
5 ch
campo

Role in the sentence - camped and campo

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: camped is averb and campoanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 54280, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

camped is recorded at frequency rank #20,308, classified as averb, pronounced /kæmpt/. campo is at rank #33,972, tagged as anoun.

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 54280, this pair ranks #142,309 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of camped vs campo

Shared letters: acmp. Private to "camped": de. Private to "campo": o.

"camped" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC  ·  "campo" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • camped ← acmped · camepd · cammped · campde · campedd · campped · capmed · ccamped
  • campo ← acmpo · cammpo · camop · camppo · capmo · ccampo · cmapo

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "camped" and "campo" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "camped" is a verb and "campo" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary English text, does "camped" or "campo" show up more?
"camped" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #20,308 in our English list, against #33,972 for "campo". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pair "camped" vs "campo" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "camped" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "campo" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #142,309 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "camped" and "campo" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "cami vs campo". 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 #142,309 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list