Cameroun
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cameroun |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Name |
| IPA | \kam.ʁun\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,110 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Pays 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.
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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"
Frequency rank: #5,110 in French
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