caméo
\ka.me.o\
The verdict
“caméo” is uncommon French (frequency #72,152 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,152
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Brève apparition ou petit rôle tenu dans un film par une personnalité, généralement un acteur célèbre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cameo · caméo · French
caméo · rank #72,152 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,152
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH caméléons
Nearest frequency peer: caméléons (-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 « caméo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- capacity
capacity
27,846 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « caméo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caméo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.me.o\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #72,152 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « caméo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
caméo is uncommon French at frequency #72,152 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.me.o\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Brève apparition ou petit rôle tenu dans un film par une personnalité, généralement un acteur célèbre.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for caméo, 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 entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is caméo, spelled C-A-M-É-O.
Definition
- 1Brève apparition ou petit rôle tenu dans un film par une personnalité, généralement un acteur célèbre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how caméo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tardi se sert aussi du thème du cinéma pour faire des clins d’œil au lecteur, comme faisait Hitchcock quand il se plaçait en caméo dans tous ses films.
George Lucas propose aussi un caméo à Kenny Baker, l’éternel R2D2.
This word in other languages
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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