camoufle
\ka.mufl\
The verdict
“camoufle” is uncommon French (frequency #63,598 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,598
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bougie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-camoufle · camoufle · French
camoufle · rank #63,598 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,598
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH canvas
Nearest frequency peer: canvas (+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 « camoufle »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cailler
cailler
36,406 corpus weight
- caloriques
caloriques
36,405 corpus weight
- camoufle
camoufle
36,403 corpus weight
- canvas
canvas
36,402 corpus weight
- captant
captant
36,401 corpus weight
- cardon
cardon
36,400 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « camoufle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | camoufle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.mufl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #63,598 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « camoufle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
camoufle is uncommon French at frequency #63,598 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.mufl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for camoufle in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is camoufle, spelled C-A-M-O-U-F-L-E.
Definition
- 1Bougie.
- 2Lampe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how camoufle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Qu’est-ce que recevoir un soufflet ? La métaphore banale répond : C’est voir trente-six chandelles. Ici l’argot intervient, et reprend : Chandelle, camoufle. Sur ce, le langage usuel donne au soufflet pour synonyme camouflet.
La démangeaison qui réveilla Fleurissoire était si vive qu’il ralluma sa bougie et courut au miroir contempler, sous le maxillaire inférieur, une rougeur confuse semée d’indistincts petits points blancs ; mais la camoufle éclairait mal ; la glace était de tain sali, son regard brouillé de sommeil…
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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