caméléons
\ka.me.le.ɔ̃\
The verdict
“caméléons” is uncommon French (frequency #72,151 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,151
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de caméléon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cameleons · caméléons · French
caméléons · rank #72,151 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,151
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Callaghan
Nearest frequency peer: Callaghan (-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 « caméléons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cadrages
cadrages
27,854 corpus weight
- caftan
caftan
27,852 corpus weight
- Callaghan
Callaghan
27,851 corpus weight
- caméléons
caméléons
27,850 corpus weight
- caméo
caméo
27,849 corpus weight
- cantonniers
cantonniers
27,848 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « caméléons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caméléons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.me.le.ɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #72,151 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « caméléons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
caméléons is uncommon French at frequency #72,151 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.me.le.ɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de caméléon.".
No misspelling variants are generated for caméléons in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is caméléons, spelled C-A-M-É-L-É-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de caméléon.
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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