campait
\kɑ̃.pɛ\
The verdict
“campait” is uncommon French (frequency #71,327 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,327
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe camper.
Corpus desk
Index FR-campait · campait · French
campait · rank #71,327 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,327
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH campée
Nearest frequency peer: campée (+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 « campait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- calame
calame
28,678 corpus weight
- campait
campait
28,674 corpus weight
- campée
campée
28,673 corpus weight
- Cancún
Cancún
28,672 corpus weight
- candélabres
candélabres
28,671 corpus weight
- cannelures
cannelures
28,670 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « campait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | campait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɑ̃.pɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #71,327 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « campait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
campait is uncommon French at frequency #71,327 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɑ̃.pɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe camper.".
campait has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is campait, spelled C-A-M-P-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe camper.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how campait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il se tenait les jambes un peu écartées, comme un alité qui reprend la marche et cette faiblesse campait sa stature avec une paradoxale assurance.
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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