camera
/ˈkæm.ə.ɹə/
"camera" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“camera” is a regularly-used English word, ranked #1,417 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #1,417
- frequency rank, English
- 6
- letters
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A device for taking still or moving pictures or photographs.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | camera |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkæm.ə.ɹə/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,417 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “camera” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for camera is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈkæm.ə.ɹə/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,417 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for camera, with forms such as "acmera", "caemra", and "camear". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Cara", "cater", "caper", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: Learned borrowing from Latin camera (“chamber or bedchamber”), from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “anything with an arched cover, a covered carriage or boat, a vaulted chamber, a vault”), of Old Iranian origin, from Proto-Iranian *kamarā- (“something curved… The correct English form is camera, spelled C-A-M-E-R-A.
Definition
- 1A device for taking still or moving pictures or photographs.
- 2The viewpoint in a three-dimensional game or simulation.
- 3A vaulted room.
- 4A judge's private chamber, where cases may be heard in camera.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin camera (“chamber or bedchamber”), from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “anything with an arched cover, a covered carriage or boat, a vaulted chamber, a vault”), of Old Iranian origin, from Proto-Iranian *kamarā- (“something curved”), from *kamárati, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kmárati, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂em- (“to bend, curve”). Doublet of chamber. (device): A clipping of camera obscura, from New Latin camera obscura (“dark chamber”), because the first cameras used a pinhole and a dark room.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acmera,caemra,camear,camerra,cammera,camrea,ccamera,cmaera
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of camera - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “camera”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-A-M-E-R-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈkæm.ə.ɹə/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Cara” - see the side-by-side comparison. camera vs Cara
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.