campus

/[ˈkãmpus]/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,181

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

15

similar word pairs

campus is aSpanishnoun. It means: Conjunto reunido de instalaciones universitarias. Se conoce también como ciudad universitaria. Pronounced [ˈkãmpus]. It ranks #5,181 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with capas and compu.

Key facts for campus
PropertyValue
Headwordcampus
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈkãmpus]
Letters6
Frequency rank#5,181
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs15
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of campus in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for campus is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkãmpus]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,181 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Conjunto reunido de instalaciones universitarias. Se conoce también como ciudad universitaria.".

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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "capas", "compu", "capos", 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 Spanish 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
    Conjunto reunido de instalaciones universitarias. Se conoce también como ciudad universitaria.

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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: #5,181 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "campus"?
"campus" is spelled C-A-M-P-U-S. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈkãmpus].
What does "campus" mean?
As a noun, "campus" means: Conjunto reunido de instalaciones universitarias. Se conoce también como ciudad universitaria.
What words are commonly confused with "campus"?
"campus" is commonly confused with "capas", "compu", "capos". 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 [ˈkãmpus]. 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 Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Spanish words

Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Spanish index:

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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.