camelots
\kam.lo\
The verdict
“camelots” is uncommon French (frequency #69,651 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,651
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de camelot.
Corpus desk
Index FR-camelots · camelots · French
camelots · rank #69,651 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,651
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH calvo
Nearest frequency peer: calvo (-2 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 « camelots »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- californien…
californiennes
30,353 corpus weight
- calvo
calvo
30,352 corpus weight
- camelots
camelots
30,350 corpus weight
- canaria
canaria
30,347 corpus weight
- caniculaire
caniculaire
30,346 corpus weight
- Capbreton
Capbreton
30,345 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « camelots » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | camelots |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kam.lo\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #69,651 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « camelots » en français
Rare enough to double-check
camelots is uncommon French at frequency #69,651 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kam.lo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de camelot.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for camelots, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is camelots, spelled C-A-M-E-L-O-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de camelot.
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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