camp de vacances
\kɑ̃ də va.kɑ̃s\
The verdict
“camp de vacances” 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
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Établissement public, privé, ou associatif ayant pour but d’héberger des enfants et des adolescents pendant la période des vacances, de leur faire faire des activités de plein air, sportives ou cul...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | camp de vacances |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɑ̃ də va.kɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “camp de vacances” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for camp de vacances is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɑ̃ də va.kɑ̃s\. 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: "Établissement public, privé, ou associatif ayant pour but d’héberger des enfants et des adolescents pendant la période des vacances, de leur faire faire des activités de plein air, sportives ou cul...".
No misspelling variants are generated for camp de vacances 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 vacances, spelled C-A-M-P- -D-E- -V-A-C-A-N-C-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Établissement public, privé, ou associatif ayant pour but d’héberger des enfants et des adolescents pendant la période des vacances, de leur faire faire des activités de plein air, sportives ou culturelles.
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- The one correct French spelling is C-A-M-P- -D-E- -V-A-C-A-N-C-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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