campane
French, noun/kɑ̃.pan/
campane is spelled C-A-M-P-A-N-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 40 million words in written French, the 200,689th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Campane is a French masculine noun meaning “cowbell” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ornement en forme de cloche”.
What does campane mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecowbell
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Ornement en forme de cloche. 2. Ouvrage de soie, d’argent filé, etc., avec de petits ornements en forme de cloches, faits aussi de soie, d’or, etc. 3. Ornement de sculpture d’où pendent des houppes en forme de clochettes, pour un dais d’autel, de trône, de chaire à prêcher, etc. 4. Corps du chapiteau corinthien et celui du chapiteau composite, parce qu’ils ressemblent à une cloche renversée.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of campane
- campanes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce campane?
- /kɑ̃.pan/
- \kɑ̃.pan\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is campane in French?
campane appears about once in every 40 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).