camion
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,050
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
camion is aFrenchnoun. It means: Véhicule terrestre automobile équipé d’un, deux ou trois essieux directeurs ainsi que de un à trois essieux porteurs et destiné au transport de marchandises. Pronounced \ka.mjɔ̃\. It ranks #4,050 in French word frequency. Often confused with canon and caron.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | camion |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.mjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #4,050 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for camion is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.mjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,050 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for camion, with forms such as "acmion", "caimon", and "camionn". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "canon", "caron", "campo", and more, 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 camion, spelled C-A-M-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Véhicule terrestre automobile équipé d’un, deux ou trois essieux directeurs ainsi que de un à trois essieux porteurs et destiné au transport de marchandises.
- 2Fardier ; haquet ; chariot bas.
- 3Récipient d’assez grande capacité.
- 4Seau utilisé par les peintres en bâtiments pour délayer les peintures.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acmion,caimon,camionn,cammion,camoin,ccamion,cmaion
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for camion
Misspelling Variants of "camion"
Frequency rank: #4,050 in French
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