Cameroun
\kam.ʁun\
The verdict
“Cameroun” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,110. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,110
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 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...
Corpus desk
Index FR-cameroun · Cameroun · French
Cameroun · rank #5,110 · 11 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #5,110
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH bébés
Nearest frequency peer: bébés (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Cameroun »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bouteilles
bouteilles
94,894 corpus weight
- brown
brown
94,893 corpus weight
- bébés
bébés
94,892 corpus weight
- Cameroun
Cameroun
94,891 corpus weight
- canapé
canapé
94,890 corpus weight
- chiant
chiant
94,889 corpus weight
What this shows « Cameroun » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cameroun |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kam.ʁun\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,110 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Cameroun »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Cameroun (IPA \kam.ʁun\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #5,110 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "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". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Cameron", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Cameroun, spelled C-A-M-E-R-O-U-N.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Cameroun appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’objectif de la France était d’ailleurs de procéder au plus vite à la dégermanisation du Cameroun. Le Père Jules Douvry fut confirmé administrateur apostolique du Cameroun durante bello le 3 février 1917.
C'est dans ce cercle de personnages politiques réservés et non de personnalités politiciennes et paradeuses qu'il convient de rechercher le profil du remplaçant que Paul Biya prépare pour le Cameroun », précise le politologue.
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
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Cameroun - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).