campagnol
\kɑ̃.pa.ɲɔl\
The verdict
“campagnol” is uncommon French (frequency #89,500 among 257,141 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,500
- frequency rank, French
- 257,141
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Petit rongeur fouisseur brun de la sous-famille des Arvicolinés, voisin du mulot, à l’allure trapue, à queue poilue courte, aux yeux et oreilles peu proéminents, qui se tient beaucoup sous terre où...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | campagnol |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɑ̃.pa.ɲɔl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #89,500 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “campagnol” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
campagnol is uncommon French at frequency #89,500 among 257,141 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɑ̃.pa.ɲɔl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Petit rongeur fouisseur brun de la sous-famille des Arvicolinés, voisin du mulot, à l’allure trapue, à queue poilue courte, aux yeux et oreilles peu proéminents, qui se tient beaucoup sous terre où...".
Zero misspellings are on record for campagnol in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is campagnol, spelled C-A-M-P-A-G-N-O-L.
Definition
- 1Petit rongeur fouisseur brun de la sous-famille des Arvicolinés, voisin du mulot, à l’allure trapue, à queue poilue courte, aux yeux et oreilles peu proéminents, qui se tient beaucoup sous terre où il creuse des galeries peu profondes.
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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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Using “campagnol”
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- The one correct French spelling is C-A-M-P-A-G-N-O-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.