caméscope
\ka.me.skɔp\
The verdict
“caméscope” is uncommon French (frequency #58,476 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,476
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Appareil portatif qui intègre dans le même boîtier une caméra électronique et un magnétoscope.
Corpus desk
Index FR-camescope · caméscope · French
caméscope · rank #58,476 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,476
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Camargo
Nearest frequency peer: Camargo (-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 « caméscope »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- califes
califes
41,529 corpus weight
- calls
calls
41,528 corpus weight
- Camargo
Camargo
41,526 corpus weight
- caméscope
caméscope
41,525 corpus weight
- cancres
cancres
41,523 corpus weight
- Canigou
Canigou
41,522 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « caméscope » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caméscope |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.me.skɔp\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #58,476 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « caméscope » en français
Rare enough to double-check
caméscope is uncommon French at frequency #58,476 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.me.skɔp\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Appareil portatif qui intègre dans le même boîtier une caméra électronique et un magnétoscope.".
No misspelling variants are generated for caméscope in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is caméscope, spelled C-A-M-É-S-C-O-P-E.
Definition
- 1Appareil portatif qui intègre dans le même boîtier une caméra électronique et un magnétoscope.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how caméscope appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un caméscope numérique.
Une caméra et un magnétoscope en un seul appareil, cela donne le caméscope, successeur surdoué du cinéma d’amateur.
Synonyms
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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