camellia
The verdict
“camellia” is uncommon French (frequency #91,495 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,495
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Graphie ancienne de camélia.
Corpus desk
Index FR-camellia · camellia · French
camellia · rank #91,495 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,495
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cambio
Nearest frequency peer: cambio (-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 « camellia »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Calatrava
Calatrava
8,509 corpus weight
- calcination
calcination
8,508 corpus weight
- cambio
cambio
8,507 corpus weight
- camellia
camellia
8,506 corpus weight
- canonical
canonical
8,505 corpus weight
- canotiers
canotiers
8,504 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « camellia » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | camellia |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #91,495 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « camellia » en français
Rare enough to double-check
camellia is uncommon French at frequency #91,495 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Graphie ancienne de camélia.".
Zero misspellings are on record for camellia in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is camellia, spelled C-A-M-E-L-L-I-A.
Definition
- 1Graphie ancienne de camélia.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how camellia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les plus magnifiques vases opaques ne pouvaient produire l’effet de cette petite lampe transparente éclairée par une chaste flamme ; le plus superbe camellia, le plus magnifique dahlia n’étaient pas comparables à cette violette blanche au suave parfum.
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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