campagnarde
\kɑ̃.pa.ɲaʁd\
The verdict
“campagnarde” is uncommon French (frequency #56,467 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,467
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui habite à la campagne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-campagnarde · campagnarde · French
campagnarde · rank #56,467 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,467
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH calcinés
Nearest frequency peer: calcinés (-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 « campagnarde »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- caissières
caissières
43,537 corpus weight
- calamiteuse
calamiteuse
43,536 corpus weight
- calcinés
calcinés
43,535 corpus weight
- campagnarde
campagnarde
43,534 corpus weight
- cannette
cannette
43,533 corpus weight
- capita
capita
43,532 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « campagnarde » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | campagnarde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɑ̃.pa.ɲaʁd\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #56,467 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « campagnarde » en français
Rare enough to double-check
campagnarde is uncommon French at frequency #56,467 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɑ̃.pa.ɲaʁd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for campagnarde, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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 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 campagnarde, spelled C-A-M-P-A-G-N-A-R-D-E.
Definition
- 1Celle qui habite à la campagne.
- 2Gentilé d’habitantes de certaines localités contenant le mot Campagne, telles que :
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how campagnarde appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On voit bien que c’est des Parisiens, s'écria une jeune campagnarde, ça n’a jamais rien vu!
Moralement, c’est une bonne campagnarde, experte en beignets et en confitures (comme Céline de Théus), qui s’occupe du troupeau de chèvres, cuisinière, bergère ou ménagère à ses heures, et « qui sait bassiner les lits à la pierre rôtie […]. »
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).