caméléon
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#25,919
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
caméléon is aFrenchnoun. It means: Reptile insectivore ayant notamment la capacité de changer de couleur (ils constituent les Caméléonidés, Chamaeleonidae). Pronounced \ka.me.le.ɔ̃\. Often confused with Cameron and camelot.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caméléon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.me.le.ɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #25,919 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for caméléon is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.me.le.ɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #25,919 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for caméléon, with forms such as "acméléon", "cameleon", and "camlééon". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Cameron", "camelot", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is caméléon, spelled C-A-M-É-L-É-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Reptile insectivore ayant notamment la capacité de changer de couleur (ils constituent les Caméléonidés, Chamaeleonidae).
- 2Personne qui change d’avis, d’humeur et de langage au gré de ses intérêts.
- 3Désigne des tissus dont la trame et la chaîne sont d'une couleurs différentes.
- 4Périphrase désignant la société américaine Nvidia, par référence à son logotype.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acméléon,cameleon,camlééon,camméléon,camélléon,caméloén,caméléno,caméléonn,caméélon,caémléon,ccaméléon,cmaéléon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "caméléon"
Frequency rank: #25,919 in French
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Nearby French words
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