camaïeu
\ka.ma.jø\
The verdict
“camaïeu” is uncommon French (frequency #62,834 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,834
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Camée, pierre fine qui présente deux nuances différentes de la même couleur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-camaieu · camaïeu · French
camaïeu · rank #62,834 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,834
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cannettes
Nearest frequency peer: cannettes (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « camaïeu »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bénard
bénard
37,170 corpus weight
- bénédictines
bénédictines
37,169 corpus weight
- camaïeu
camaïeu
37,167 corpus weight
- cannettes
cannettes
37,166 corpus weight
- canonnières
canonnières
37,165 corpus weight
- cantates
cantates
37,164 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « camaïeu » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | camaïeu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ma.jø\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #62,834 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « camaïeu » en français
Rare enough to double-check
camaïeu is uncommon French at frequency #62,834 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.ma.jø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for camaïeu in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is camaïeu, spelled C-A-M-A-Ï-E-U.
Definition
- 1Camée, pierre fine qui présente deux nuances différentes de la même couleur.
- 2Peinture ou coloration où l’on n’emploie qu’une couleur avec des nuances différentes.
- 3Objet peint dans une seule nuance de coloris.
- 4Scène avec des nuances d'un seul coloris.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how camaïeu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Peindre en camaïeu. Un tableau peint en camaïeu.
Je me levai enfin, courant au parterre du château, où se trouvaient des lauriers, plantés dans de grands vases de faïence peints en camaïeu.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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