# campus

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈkæmpəs/ · frequency rank #2,928

## Definitions
1. The grounds or property of a school, college, university, business, church, or hospital, often understood to include buildings and other structures.
2. An institution of higher education and its ambiance.

## Etymology
Borrowed from Latin campus (“field”). Doublet of camp and champ.
First used in its current sense in reference to Princeton University in the 1770s.

## Easily confused with
- **caps** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/campus-vs-caps)
- **capes** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/campus-vs-capes)
- **Camus** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/campus-vs-camus)
- **corpus** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/campus-vs-corpus)
- **caucus** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/campus-vs-caucus)
- **cramps** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/campus-vs-cramps)
- **clamps** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/campus-vs-clamps)
- **camp** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/camp-vs-campus)
- **camps** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/camps-vs-campus)
- **campo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/campo-vs-campus)
- **cactus** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cactus-vs-campus)
- **camels** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/camels-vs-campus)
- **camped** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/camped-vs-campus)
- **camper** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/camper-vs-campus)
- **callus** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/callus-vs-campus)

## Common misspellings (9)
`acmpus`, `cammpus`, `camppus`, `campsu`, `campuss`, `camups`, `capmus`, `ccampus`, `cmapus`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/campus