camouflage

\ka.mu.flaʒ\

/\ka.mu.flaʒ\/ noun

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The verdict

“camouflage” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,660. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#20,660
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
14
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de camoufler, art de se dissimuler, ou de rendre invisible une position ou un engin ; résultat de cette action.

Corpus desk

Index FR-camouflage · camouflage · French

camouflage · rank #20,660 · 14 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #20,660
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH Cadillac

Nearest frequency peer: Cadillac (-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 « camouflage »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « camouflage » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for camouflage
PropertyValue
Headwordcamouflage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ka.mu.flaʒ\
Letters10
Frequency rank#20,660
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « camouflage »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).camouflagese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Cadillac » (#20,659), « carcasse » (#20,661), « carpe » (#20,662). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « camouflage » est au #20,660. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around camouflage (IPA \ka.mu.flaʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,660 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for camouflage, with forms such as "acmouflage", "cammouflage", and "camofulage". 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. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is camouflage, spelled C-A-M-O-U-F-L-A-G-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de camoufler, art de se dissimuler, ou de rendre invisible une position ou un engin ; résultat de cette action.
  2. 2
    Le fait, pour une personne neuroatypique, de se réprimer sa spontanéité pour avoir un comportement correspondant aux codes sociaux.
  3. 3
    Tout ce qui permet de transformer un acteur pour interpréter un rôle.
  4. 4
    Masquage.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how camouflage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Devant moi se tenait un commandant de paras en uniforme de « camouflage » et béret bleu.
  2. Les petits faux sauniers imaginaient aussi toutes sortes de camouflages pour passer de faibles quantités de faux sel. Bernard Briais, Contrebandiers du sel : La vie du faux saunier au temps de la gabelle, Paris : Éditions Aubier Montaigne, 1984, p. 74

Synonyms

maquillagedéguisementdissimulationartificefraudemaskingmasquagemimétisme

This word in other languages

camouflage(English)enmascaramiento(Español)Tarnung(Deutsch)camuflagem(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • acmouflage
  • cammouflage
  • camofulage
  • camoufalge
  • camoufflage
  • camouflaeg
  • camouflagge
  • camouflgae
  • camoufllage
  • camoulfage
  • camuoflage
  • caomuflage
  • ccamouflage
  • cmaouflage

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of camouflage - 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.

acmouflage2cammouflage1camofulage2camoufalge2camoufflage1camouflaeg2camouflagge1camouflgae2
Edit distance from "camouflage"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "camouflage"?
"camouflage" is spelled C-A-M-O-U-F-L-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ka.mu.flaʒ\.
What does "camouflage" mean?
As a noun, "camouflage" means: Action de camoufler, art de se dissimuler, ou de rendre invisible une position ou un engin ; résultat de cette action.
What are common misspellings of "camouflage"?
Common misspellings include "acmouflage", "cammouflage", "camofulage", "camoufalge", "camoufflage". The correct spelling is "camouflage".
How do you pronounce "camouflage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "camouflage" is \ka.mu.flaʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "camouflage" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "camouflage", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list