camper
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#20,074
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
camper is aFrenchverb. It means: S’établir ou établir dans un camp. Pronounced \kɑ̃.pe\. Often confused with cape and camps.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | camper |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɑ̃.pe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #20,074 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for camper is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɑ̃.pe\. Corpus data places it at rank #20,074 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for camper, with forms such as "acmper", "camepr", and "cammper". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cape", "camps", "carpe", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is camper, spelled C-A-M-P-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1S’établir ou établir dans un camp.
- 2Ne faire qu’une courte station dans un lieu ou n’y être pas installé définitivement, bivouaquer.
- 3Ne pas avoir de logis assuré, en changer tous les jours.
- 4Pratiquer le camping : habiter sous une tente.
- 5Planter ; placer solidement.
- 6Rester un certain temps à un endroit considéré comme temporaire.
- 7Planter, laisser, abandonner.
- 8Décrire, dépeindre très clairement un personnage ou une situation.
- 9Effectuer une action avec détermination.
- 10Rester ferme sur une position dans un débat, un conflit. Ne pas changer d'avis, refuser toute concession, tout compromis ou toute négociation.
- 11Attendre l’ennemi depuis une position stratégique.
- 12S’installer fermement, solidement.
- 13Prendre une pose qui évoque la solidité, voire le défi.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acmper,camepr,cammper,camperr,campper,campre,capmer,ccamper,cmaper
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for camper
Misspelling Variants of "camper"
Frequency rank: #20,074 in French
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Nearby French words
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