camorra
\ka.mɔ.ʁa\
The verdict
“camorra” is uncommon French (frequency #60,618 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,618
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Équivalent napolitain ou urbain de la mafia sicilienne ou rurale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-camorra · camorra · French
camorra · rank #60,618 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,618
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH calembour
Nearest frequency peer: calembour (-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 « camorra »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bémols
bémols
39,386 corpus weight
- Cabanis
Cabanis
39,385 corpus weight
- calembour
calembour
39,384 corpus weight
- camorra
camorra
39,383 corpus weight
- canis
canis
39,382 corpus weight
- capello
capello
39,381 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « camorra » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | camorra |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.mɔ.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #60,618 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « camorra » en français
Rare enough to double-check
camorra is uncommon French at frequency #60,618 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.mɔ.ʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
camorra doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is camorra, spelled C-A-M-O-R-R-A.
Definition
- 1Équivalent napolitain ou urbain de la mafia sicilienne ou rurale.
- 2Organisation criminelle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how camorra appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La camorra […] est un phénomène mafieux urbain à la différence de Cosa Nostra qui est issu d’un milieu rural. C’est un type de mafia né à Naples en Italie au début du XIXᵉ siècle mais dont les origines sont plus anciennes.
La vice-présidente du FN estime que « la démission d’Éric Woerth, chef de la camorra (mafia napolitaine, ndr) fiscale et trésorier de la campagne de Nicolas Sarkozy en 2007, est plus que jamais nécessaire.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).