campan
\kɑ̃.pɑ̃\
The verdict
“campan” is uncommon French (frequency #59,863 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,863
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Marbre principalement vert veiné de blanc, de rose ou de rouge.
Corpus desk
Index FR-campan · campan · French
campan · rank #59,863 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,863
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH calorifique
Nearest frequency peer: calorifique (-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 « campan »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Cahen
Cahen
40,141 corpus weight
- Cairo
Cairo
40,140 corpus weight
- calorifique
calorifique
40,139 corpus weight
- campan
campan
40,138 corpus weight
- candida
candida
40,137 corpus weight
- caquistes
caquistes
40,136 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « campan » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | campan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɑ̃.pɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #59,863 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « campan » en français
Rare enough to double-check
campan is uncommon French at frequency #59,863 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɑ̃.pɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Marbre principalement vert veiné de blanc, de rose ou de rouge.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for campan in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 campan, spelled C-A-M-P-A-N.
Definition
- 1Marbre principalement vert veiné de blanc, de rose ou de rouge.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how campan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le mot de campan, de la vallée de Campan (Hautes- Pyrénées), s’applique à tous les marbres qui se rapprochent plus ou moins des trois espèces de marbres qui s’extraient dans la vallée de Campan : — campan vert, campan isabelle et campan rouge.
Vert campan, marbre rouge du Languedoc, et marbre blanc légèrement veiné, notre marbre blanc, du marbre vivant comme ceux de Versailles qui sont moins “sucriers” que ceux d’Italie.
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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