Cambrai
\kɑ̃.bʁɛ\
The verdict
“Cambrai” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,425. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,425
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Nord.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cambrai · Cambrai · French
Cambrai · rank #18,425 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,425
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH care
Nearest frequency peer: care (+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 « Cambrai »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bureaucratie
bureaucratie
81,580 corpus weight
- butler
butler
81,579 corpus weight
- Cambrai
Cambrai
81,576 corpus weight
- care
care
81,575 corpus weight
- caresses
caresses
81,574 corpus weight
- Cathy
Cathy
81,573 corpus weight
What this shows « Cambrai » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | Cambrai |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kɑ̃.bʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #18,425 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Cambrai »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Cambrai (IPA \kɑ̃.bʁɛ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #18,425 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Cambrai, with forms such as "acmbrai", "cabmrai", and "cambari". 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, "cambre", "cameras", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 Cambrai, spelled C-A-M-B-R-A-I.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département du Nord.
- 2Canton français, situé dans le département du Nord.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acmbrai
- cabmrai
- cambari
- cambbrai
- cambria
- cambrrai
- cammbrai
- camrbai
- ccambrai
- cmabrai
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Cambrai - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).