camping

/\kɑ̃.piŋ(ɡ)\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#6,792

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

7

similar word pairs

camping is aFrenchnoun. It means: Activité consistant à vivre dans une tente, une caravane, une autocaravane (ou camping-car) ou tout autre équipement destiné à la vie de plein air. Pronounced \kɑ̃.piŋ(ɡ)\. It ranks #6,792 in French word frequency. Often confused with coming and casting.

Key facts for camping
PropertyValue
Headwordcamping
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɑ̃.piŋ(ɡ)\
Letters7
Frequency rank#6,792
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of camping in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for camping is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɑ̃.piŋ(ɡ)\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,792 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for camping, with forms such as "acmping", "camipng", and "cammping". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "coming", "casting", "campion", 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 camping, spelled C-A-M-P-I-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Activité consistant à vivre dans une tente, une caravane, une autocaravane (ou camping-car) ou tout autre équipement destiné à la vie de plein air.
  2. 2
    Ellipse de terrain de camping.
  3. 3
    Rester à un endroit précis pour attaquer son adversaire de loin et/ou le forcer à attaquer.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: acmping,camipng,cammping,campign,campingg,campinng,campnig,campping,capming,ccamping,cmaping

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for camping

Misspelling Variants of "camping"

acmping7camipng7cammping8campign7campingg8campinng8campnig7campping8
Misspelling Variants of "camping"

Frequency rank: #6,792 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "camping"?
"camping" is spelled C-A-M-P-I-N-G. The IPA pronunciation is \kɑ̃.piŋ(ɡ)\.
What does "camping" mean?
As a noun, "camping" means: Activité consistant à vivre dans une tente, une caravane, une autocaravane (ou camping-car) ou tout autre équipement destiné à la vie de plein air.
What words are commonly confused with "camping"?
"camping" is commonly confused with "coming", "casting", "campion". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "camping"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "camping" is \kɑ̃.piŋ(ɡ)\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "camping" come from?
"camping" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.