Camille
\ka.mij\
The verdict
“Camille” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,914. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,914
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-camille · Camille · French
Camille · rank #4,914 · 8 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,914
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH canard
Nearest frequency peer: canard (+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 « Camille »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- barrage
barrage
95,090 corpus weight
- brillant
brillant
95,089 corpus weight
- Camille
Camille
95,087 corpus weight
- canard
canard
95,086 corpus weight
- case
case
95,085 corpus weight
- cathédrale
cathédrale
95,084 corpus weight
What this shows « Camille » 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 | Camille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ka.mij\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,914 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Camille »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Camille (IPA \ka.mij\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #4,914 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Camille, with forms such as "acmille", "caimlle", and "camile". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "couille", "Cyrille", "cueille", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Camille, spelled C-A-M-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin.
- 2Prénom masculin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Camille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Camille et la marquise entrèrent dans Guérande avec la vicomtesse de Kergarouët et sa fille, au grand étonnement de toute la ville ébahie ; elles laissèrent leurs compagnes de voyage à l’entrée de la ruelle du Guénic, où peu s’en fallut qu’il ne se formât un attroupement.
Un soir, rentrant inopinément dans la chambre de Camille (oui, c'est bien Camille, je me souviens), je trouvai, jonchant le sol, l'orientale défroque de mon géant, et dans le lit Camille… devinez avec qui !
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acmille
- caimlle
- camile
- camilel
- camlile
- cammille
- ccamille
- cmaille
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Camille - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Camille", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).