campanella
\kam.pa.ˈnɛl.la\
The verdict
“campanella” is uncommon French (frequency #77,322 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,322
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Clochette, petite cloche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-campanella · campanella · French
campanella · rank #77,322 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,322
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH caducs
Nearest frequency peer: caducs (-2 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 « campanella »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bâcler
bâcler
22,683 corpus weight
- Bérangère
Bérangère
22,682 corpus weight
- caducs
caducs
22,681 corpus weight
- campanella
campanella
22,679 corpus weight
- caniches
caniches
22,677 corpus weight
- caporaux
caporaux
22,676 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « campanella » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | campanella |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kam.pa.ˈnɛl.la\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #77,322 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « campanella » en français
Rare enough to double-check
campanella is uncommon French at frequency #77,322 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kam.pa.ˈnɛl.la\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
campanella has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is campanella, spelled C-A-M-P-A-N-E-L-L-A.
Definition
- 1Clochette, petite cloche.
- 2Sonnerie.
- 3Heutoir, marteau attaché, fixé à une porte et dont on se sert pour la frapper.
- 4L’un des deux anneaux qui composent le mors.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how campanella appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Non si vedeva l’ora che suonasse la campanella d’uscita.
Synonyms
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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