camping-car
\kɑ̃.piŋ.kaʁ\
The verdict
“camping-car” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Véhicule automobile permettant d’habiter à l’intérieur grâce à un aménagement compact mais complet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-camping-car · camping-car · French
camping-car · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | camping-car |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɑ̃.piŋ.kaʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
camping-car is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɑ̃.piŋ.kaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Véhicule automobile permettant d’habiter à l’intérieur grâce à un aménagement compact mais complet.".
camping-car has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is camping-car, spelled C-A-M-P-I-N-G---C-A-R.
Definition
- 1Véhicule automobile permettant d’habiter à l’intérieur grâce à un aménagement compact mais complet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how camping-car appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La présence française y était assez modeste et était assurée par l'intermédiaire de représentants régionaux. D'une façon générale, la section des caravanes a été plus active (surtout les camping-cars) que celle des bateaux.
Le camping-car était prêt. Les bagages furent bouclés en une après-midi. Dès l’aube, ils se mettraient en route.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.