camp de concentration
\kɑ̃ də kɔ̃.sɑ̃.tʁa.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“camp de concentration” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Vaste camp de prisonniers, emprisonnés en masse par un pouvoir tyrannique.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | camp de concentration |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɑ̃ də kɔ̃.sɑ̃.tʁa.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “camp de concentration” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for camp de concentration is 21 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɑ̃ də kɔ̃.sɑ̃.tʁa.sjɔ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Vaste camp de prisonniers, emprisonnés en masse par un pouvoir tyrannique.".
No misspelling variants are generated for camp de concentration in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 camp de concentration, spelled C-A-M-P- -D-E- -C-O-N-C-E-N-T-R-A-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Vaste camp de prisonniers, emprisonnés en masse par un pouvoir tyrannique.
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- The one correct French spelling is C-A-M-P- -D-E- -C-O-N-C-E-N-T-R-A-T-I-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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