cam
\kam\
The verdict
“cam” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,285) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,285
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langue austronésienne parlée dans le sud du Vietnam et au Cambodge.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cam · cam · French
cam · rank #9,285 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,285
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chagrin
Nearest frequency peer: chagrin (+1 rank slots)
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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « cam »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- brouillard
brouillard
90,719 corpus weight
- bénédiction
bénédiction
90,718 corpus weight
- cam
cam
90,716 corpus weight
- chagrin
chagrin
90,715 corpus weight
- chaire
chaire
90,714 corpus weight
- chargement
chargement
90,713 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « cam » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | cam |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kam\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #9,285 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « cam »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for cam is neighbouring look-alikes ("ce", "ci", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \kam\. Frequency #9,285 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Langue austronésienne parlée dans le sud du Vietnam et au Cambodge.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for cam in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ce", "ci", "co", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is cam, spelled C-A-M.
Definition
- 1Langue austronésienne parlée dans le sud du Vietnam et au Cambodge.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cam appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et comme ces parlers indigènes appartiennent à la famille austroasiatique, certains linguistes ont pensé que le cam et les langues apparentées avaient été influencés par ce contact et qu'on devait les classer dans cette même famille […].
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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