cambrure
\kɑ̃.bʁyʁ\
The verdict
“cambrure” is uncommon French (frequency #68,878 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,878
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pièce d’une chaussure placée entre la semelle et le talon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cambrure · cambrure · French
cambrure · rank #68,878 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,878
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH calendaire
Nearest frequency peer: calendaire (-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 « cambrure »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Caillaux
Caillaux
31,126 corpus weight
- calas
calas
31,125 corpus weight
- calendaire
calendaire
31,124 corpus weight
- cambrure
cambrure
31,123 corpus weight
- camouflée
camouflée
31,122 corpus weight
- canonnade
canonnade
31,121 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cambrure » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cambrure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɑ̃.bʁyʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #68,878 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cambrure » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cambrure is uncommon French at frequency #68,878 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɑ̃.bʁyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
cambrure doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cambrure, spelled C-A-M-B-R-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Pièce d’une chaussure placée entre la semelle et le talon.
- 2Courbure en arc.
- 3Mouvement que l’on fait lorsqu’on se cambre.
- 4Courbure longitudinale d’un ski qui en rehausse la partie centrale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cambrure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La cambrure d’un soulier.
Une haute fenêtre donnait sur les jardins du père Bruant. Sous elle, on avait installé l’« atelier », la machine à coudre de ma mère, le bahut de mon père et un grand baquet d’eau dans lequel trempaient toujours des cambrures et des semelles.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).