Cameroun

/\kam.ʁun\/ name

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,110

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

1

similar word pairs

Cameroun is aFrenchname. It means: Pays d’Afrique, entouré du Nigeria au nord-ouest, du Tchad au nord-est, de la République centrafricaine à l’est, du Congo au sud-est, du Gabon et de la Guinée équatoriale au sud, et du golfe de Gui... Pronounced \kam.ʁun\. It ranks #5,110 in French word frequency. Often confused with Cameron.

Key facts for Cameroun
PropertyValue
HeadwordCameroun
LanguageFrench
Part of speechName
IPA\kam.ʁun\
Letters8
Frequency rank#5,110
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of Cameroun in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for Cameroun is 8 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kam.ʁun\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,110 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pays d’Afrique, entouré du Nigeria au nord-ouest, du Tchad au nord-est, de la République centrafricaine à l’est, du Congo au sud-est, du Gabon et de la Guinée équatoriale au sud, et du golfe de Gui...".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Cameroun, with forms such as "acmeroun", "caemroun", and "cameorun". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Cameron", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is Cameroun, spelled C-A-M-E-R-O-U-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pays d’Afrique, entouré du Nigeria au nord-ouest, du Tchad au nord-est, de la République centrafricaine à l’est, du Congo au sud-est, du Gabon et de la Guinée équatoriale au sud, et du golfe de Guinée au sud-ouest, et dont la capitale est Yaoundé.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: acmeroun,caemroun,cameorun,cameronu,camerounn,camerroun,cameruon,cammeroun,camreoun,ccameroun,cmaeroun

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Cameroun

Misspelling Variants of "Cameroun"

acmeroun8caemroun8cameorun8cameronu8camerounn9camerroun9cameruon8cammeroun9
Misspelling Variants of "Cameroun"

Frequency rank: #5,110 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Cameroun"?
"Cameroun" is spelled C-A-M-E-R-O-U-N. The IPA pronunciation is \kam.ʁun\.
What does "Cameroun" mean?
As a name, "Cameroun" means: Pays d’Afrique, entouré du Nigeria au nord-ouest, du Tchad au nord-est, de la République centrafricaine à l’est, du Congo au sud-est, du Gabon et de la Guinée équatoriale au sud, et du golfe de Gui...
What words are commonly confused with "Cameroun"?
"Cameroun" is commonly confused with "Cameron". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Cameroun"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Cameroun" is \kam.ʁun\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Cameroun" come from?
"Cameroun" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.