camba
\kɑ̃.ba\
The verdict
“camba” is uncommon French (frequency #96,719 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,719
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de camber.
Corpus desk
Index FR-camba · camba · French
camba · rank #96,719 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,719
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH calent
Nearest frequency peer: calent (-2 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 « camba »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cadis
cadis
3,286 corpus weight
- caio
caio
3,285 corpus weight
- calent
calent
3,284 corpus weight
- camba
camba
3,282 corpus weight
- campari
campari
3,280 corpus weight
- candidement
candidement
3,279 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « camba » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | camba |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɑ̃.ba\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #96,719 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « camba » en français
Rare enough to double-check
camba is uncommon French at frequency #96,719 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɑ̃.ba\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de camber.".
camba doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is camba, spelled C-A-M-B-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de camber.
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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