came
\kam\
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
- Bundesliga
Bundesliga
82,360 corpus weight
- burke
burke
82,359 corpus weight
- came
came
82,356 corpus weight
- canot
canot
82,355 corpus weight
- capitaines
capitaines
82,354 corpus weight
- causent
causent
82,352 corpus weight
What this shows « came » 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 | came |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kam\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #17,645 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « came »
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
- 1Organe mécanique permettant de transformer un mouvement de rotation en mouvement de translation ou de rotation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how came appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).