cambriole
\kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔl\
The verdict
“cambriole” is uncommon French (frequency #93,570 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,570
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chambre, petite boutique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cambriole · cambriole · French
cambriole · rank #93,570 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,570
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH candides
Nearest frequency peer: candides (+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 « cambriole »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- calant
calant
6,436 corpus weight
- caldas
caldas
6,435 corpus weight
- calleux
calleux
6,433 corpus weight
- cambriole
cambriole
6,431 corpus weight
- candides
candides
6,430 corpus weight
- canola
canola
6,429 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cambriole » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cambriole |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #93,570 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cambriole » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cambriole is uncommon French at frequency #93,570 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɑ̃.bʁi.jɔl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for cambriole in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is cambriole, spelled C-A-M-B-R-I-O-L-E.
Definition
- 1Chambre, petite boutique.
- 2Cambriolage
- 3Ensemble des cambrioleurs et de leurs actions.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cambriole appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Eh bien ! la mère Vasseur déclare que cette dame Pellegrini venait de temps à autre passer quelques jours chez elle. — Parbleu ! entre deux coups de cambriole.
Qu'est-ce que tu veux! du moment qu’pour chercher leur pèze y a des gnières qu'est encore dans la cambriole, faut bien qu'ils lavent leur part de stock. Pas vrai?
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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