Cambrai
"cambrai" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Cambrai” is uncommon English (frequency #84,062 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,062
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A city in the Nord department and the Hauts-de-France region of France on the Scheldt river.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cambrai · Cambrai · English
Cambrai · rank #84,062 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,062
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH calligrapher
Nearest frequency peer: calligrapher (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “Cambrai”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Byng
Byng
15,943 corpus weight
- caca
caca
15,942 corpus weight
- Caillou
Caillou
15,941 corpus weight
- calligrapher
calligrapher
15,940 corpus weight
- Cambrai
Cambrai
15,939 corpus weight
- cannibalize
cannibalize
15,938 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Cambrai” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cambrai |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #84,062 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Cambrai” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Cambrai is uncommon English at frequency #84,062 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A city in the Nord department and the Hauts-de-France region of France on the Scheldt river.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Cambrai in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Unadapted borrowing from French Cambrai, itself from Latin Camarācum. The correct English form is Cambrai, spelled C-A-M-B-R-A-I.
Definition
- 1A city in the Nord department and the Hauts-de-France region of France on the Scheldt river.
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French Cambrai, itself from Latin Camarācum.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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