camarade

\ka.ma.ʁad\

/\ka.ma.ʁad\/ noun

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The verdict

“camarade” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,405. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#7,405
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui ou celle qui, en partageant les occupations, la vie d’une ou de plusieurs personnes, contracte avec elles une sorte d’amitié et une communauté d’intérêts.

Corpus desk

Index FR-camarade · camarade · French

camarade · rank #7,405 · 11 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #7,405
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH Bruce

Nearest frequency peer: Bruce (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « camarade »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « camarade » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

camarade vs Camargue
63% similar
camarade vs camarades
89% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for camarade
PropertyValue
Headwordcamarade
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ka.ma.ʁad\
Letters8
Frequency rank#7,405
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « camarade »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.camaradese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Bruce » (#7,404), « canaux » (#7,406), « bracelet » (#7,403). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « camarade » est au #7,405. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around camarade (IPA \ka.ma.ʁad\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,405 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for camarade, with forms such as "acmarade", "caamrade", and "camaarde". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Camargue", "camarades", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is camarade, spelled C-A-M-A-R-A-D-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Celui ou celle qui, en partageant les occupations, la vie d’une ou de plusieurs personnes, contracte avec elles une sorte d’amitié et une communauté d’intérêts.
  2. 2
    Appellation que se donnent entre eux les partisans de certaines organisations de gauche.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how camarade appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Un seul oignon frit à l'huile un seul oignon nous change en lions. Au pas camarades, au pas camarades, au pas, au pas, au pas.
  2. Les ouvriers vaincus sont persuadés que leur insuccès tient à la vilenie de quelques camarades qui n'ont pas fait tout ce qu'on avait le droit d'attendre d'eux; de nombreu­ses accusations de trahison se produisent.

Synonyms

copainamicompagnoncondisciple

Antonyms

ennemi

This word in other languages

comrade(English)camarada(Español)Kamerad(Deutsch)camarada(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • acmarade
  • caamrade
  • camaarde
  • camaradde
  • camaraed
  • camardae
  • camarrade
  • cammarade
  • camraade
  • ccamarade
  • cmaarade

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of camarade - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

acmarade2caamrade2camaarde2camaradde1camaraed2camardae2camarrade1cammarade1
Edit distance from "camarade"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "camarade"?
"camarade" is spelled C-A-M-A-R-A-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ka.ma.ʁad\.
What does "camarade" mean?
As a noun, "camarade" means: Celui ou celle qui, en partageant les occupations, la vie d’une ou de plusieurs personnes, contracte avec elles une sorte d’amitié et une communauté d’intérêts.
What words are commonly confused with "camarade"?
"camarade" is commonly confused with "Camargue", "camarades". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "camarade"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "camarade" is \ka.ma.ʁad\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "camarade" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "camarade", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

bracelet#7,403allusion#7,401composer#7,412consacre#7,415

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

cendres11 variantsdétient11 variantssombres11 variantsrajouter11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list