came

\kam\

/\kam\/ noun

The verdict

“came” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,645. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#17,645
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
5
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Organe mécanique permettant de transformer un mouvement de rotation en mouvement de translation ou de rotation.

Corpus desk

Index FR-came · came · French

came · rank #17,645 · 5 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #17,645
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 5 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH canot

Nearest frequency peer: canot (+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 « came »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « came » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

came vs ce
50% similar
came vs Cm
25% similar
came vs cas
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for came
PropertyValue
Headwordcame
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kam\
Letters4
Frequency rank#17,645
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « came »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).camese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « canot » (#17,646), « capitaines » (#17,647), « burke » (#17,642). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « came » est au #17,645. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 5 spelling variants around came (IPA \kam\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,645 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Organe mécanique permettant de transformer un mouvement de rotation en mouvement de translation ou de rotation.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for came, with forms such as "acme", "caem", and "camme". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ce", "Cm", "cas", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is came, spelled C-A-M-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Organe mécanique permettant de transformer un mouvement de rotation en mouvement de translation ou de rotation.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how came appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Ces mouvements étant délicats et rapides (…), il faut un très bon graissage des cames, des barrettes et des vis.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • acme
  • caem
  • camme
  • ccame
  • cmae

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of came - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

acme2caem2camme1ccame1cmae2
Edit distance from "came"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "came"?
"came" is spelled C-A-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kam\.
What does "came" mean?
As a noun, "came" means: Organe mécanique permettant de transformer un mouvement de rotation en mouvement de translation ou de rotation.
What words are commonly confused with "came"?
"came" is commonly confused with "ce", "Cm", "cas". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "came"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "came" is \kam\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "came" come from?
"came" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "came", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list