camp de la mort
\kɑ̃ d(ə) la mɔʁ\
The verdict
“camp de la mort” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Surnom donné aux camps de concentration et aux camps d'extermination.
Corpus desk
Index FR-camp-de-la-mort · camp de la mort · French
camp de la mort · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | camp de la mort |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɑ̃ d(ə) la mɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
camp de la mort is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɑ̃ d(ə) la mɔʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Surnom donné aux camps de concentration et aux camps d'extermination.".
camp de la mort doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is camp de la mort, spelled C-A-M-P- -D-E- -L-A- -M-O-R-T.
Definition
- 1Surnom donné aux camps de concentration et aux camps d'extermination.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how camp de la mort appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans le secret du laboratoire, testant sur de petits animaux martyrs ses cocktails de chlore, le cruel employé du gaz — et, à l’horizon de ses recherches, les futurs camps de la mort — n’ignorait pas qu’il enfreignait les conventions de La Haye par lesquelles les pays habitués à en découdre étaient convenus, afin d’en réduire les coûts, de livrer la guerr…
Dans son livre, le réalisateur a réuni les quelque 80 photographies qui nous sont parvenues, prises par des déportés dans les camps de la mort.
This word in other languages
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