camphre de Bornéo
\kɑ̃fʁ də bɔʁ.ne.o\
The verdict
“camphre de Bornéo” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nom historique du bornéol, il est fabriqué par synthèse ou extrait du Dryobalanops camphora, un grand arbre de la famille des Dipterocarpaceae, qui se rencontre dans les îles de Sumatra, Bornéo, etc.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | camphre de Bornéo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɑ̃fʁ də bɔʁ.ne.o\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “camphre de Bornéo” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for camphre de Bornéo is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɑ̃fʁ də bɔʁ.ne.o\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Nom historique du bornéol, il est fabriqué par synthèse ou extrait du Dryobalanops camphora, un grand arbre de la famille des Dipterocarpaceae, qui se rencontre dans les îles de Sumatra, Bornéo, etc.".
No misspelling variants are generated for camphre de Bornéo in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, 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 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 camphre de Bornéo, spelled C-A-M-P-H-R-E- -D-E- -B-O-R-N-É-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nom historique du bornéol, il est fabriqué par synthèse ou extrait du Dryobalanops camphora, un grand arbre de la famille des Dipterocarpaceae, qui se rencontre dans les îles de Sumatra, Bornéo, etc.
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- The one correct French spelling is C-A-M-P-H-R-E- -D-E- -B-O-R-N-É-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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