cambrousse
\kɑ̃.bʁus\
The verdict
“cambrousse” is uncommon French (frequency #61,369 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,369
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Coin de campagne reculé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cambrousse · cambrousse · French
cambrousse · rank #61,369 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,369
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH calvinisme
Nearest frequency peer: calvinisme (-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 « cambrousse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- calmés
calmés
38,634 corpus weight
- calvinisme
calvinisme
38,633 corpus weight
- cambrousse
cambrousse
38,632 corpus weight
- Cancale
Cancale
38,631 corpus weight
- canneberge
canneberge
38,630 corpus weight
- cannelés
cannelés
38,629 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cambrousse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cambrousse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɑ̃.bʁus\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #61,369 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cambrousse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cambrousse is uncommon French at frequency #61,369 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɑ̃.bʁus\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Coin de campagne reculé.".
Zero misspellings are on record for cambrousse in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is cambrousse, spelled C-A-M-B-R-O-U-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Coin de campagne reculé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cambrousse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ainsi accoutrés, il n’aurait pas fallu qu’ils aillent se balader à la cambrousse. N’importe quel pedzouille les eût pris pour des Martiens.
C’était un brav’ gnière Qui ne mouftait guère Qu’avait depuis sa jeunesse Le goût d’la cambrousse Les jetons d’la rousse Et un faible pour la fesse
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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