camélias
\ka.me.lja\
The verdict
“camélias” is uncommon French (frequency #57,806 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,806
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de camélia.
Corpus desk
Index FR-camelias · camélias · French
camélias · rank #57,806 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,806
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cami
Nearest frequency peer: cami (-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 « camélias »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- calibrage
calibrage
42,197 corpus weight
- cami
cami
42,196 corpus weight
- camélias
camélias
42,195 corpus weight
- canonisé
canonisé
42,194 corpus weight
- canonnier
canonnier
42,193 corpus weight
- capoeira
capoeira
42,192 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « camélias » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | camélias |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.me.lja\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,806 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « camélias » en français
Rare enough to double-check
camélias is uncommon French at frequency #57,806 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.me.lja\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de camélia.".
No misspelling variants are generated for camélias in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is camélias, spelled C-A-M-É-L-I-A-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de camélia.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how camélias appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un nez grec, comme dessiné par Phidias et réuni par un double arc à des lèvres élégamment sinueuses, spiritualisait son visage de forme ovale, et dont le teint, comparable au tissu des camélias blancs, se rougissait aux joues par de jolis tons roses.
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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