campaient
\kɑ̃.pɛ\
The verdict
“campaient” is uncommon French (frequency #80,963 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,963
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe camper.
Corpus desk
Index FR-campaient · campaient · French
campaient · rank #80,963 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,963
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH canidés
Nearest frequency peer: canidés (+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 « campaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- béate
béate
19,042 corpus weight
- cambodgienn…
cambodgiennes
19,040 corpus weight
- campaient
campaient
19,038 corpus weight
- canidés
canidés
19,037 corpus weight
- cannibal
cannibal
19,036 corpus weight
- carafes
carafes
19,035 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « campaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | campaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɑ̃.pɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #80,963 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « campaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
campaient is uncommon French at frequency #80,963 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɑ̃.pɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe camper.".
campaient doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is campaient, spelled C-A-M-P-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe camper.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how campaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le déluge d’acier eut, assez rapidement, l’effet escompté par l’état-major, et les fantassins ennemis, qui campaient en avant du village, furent contraints de battre en retraite.
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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