chameau
\ʃa.mo\
The verdict
“chameau” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,081. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,081
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mammifère quadrupède ruminant haut de jambes du genre Camelus, ayant une ou deux bosses sur le dos.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chameau · chameau · French
chameau · rank #20,081 · 9 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,081
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Centrafrique
Nearest frequency peer: Centrafrique (-1 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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « chameau »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- causa
causa
79,923 corpus weight
- cavale
cavale
79,922 corpus weight
- Centrafrique
Centrafrique
79,921 corpus weight
- chameau
chameau
79,920 corpus weight
- chargent
chargent
79,919 corpus weight
- chauves
chauves
79,918 corpus weight
What this shows « chameau » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chameau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.mo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #20,081 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chameau »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around chameau (IPA \ʃa.mo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,081 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for chameau, with forms such as "cahmeau", "cchameau", and "chaemau". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "Comeau", "château", "chapeau", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is chameau, spelled C-H-A-M-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Mammifère quadrupède ruminant haut de jambes du genre Camelus, ayant une ou deux bosses sur le dos.
- 2Chameau de Bactriane par opposition au dromadaire.
- 3Femme.
- 4Personne méchante et désagréable.
- 5Notodonte chameau (Notodonta dromedarius).
- 6Faute de français.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chameau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le poney est le seul moyen de transport dans ce pays dépourvu de voies de communication; il est à l’Islandais ce que le chameau est au Bédouin : il porte le voyageur et tous ses impedimenta.
Ces chameaux des Touaregs sont de la meilleure espèce ; ils peuvent rester de trois à sept jours sans boire, et deux jours sans manger ; leur vitesse est supérieure à celle des chevaux, et ils obéissent avec intelligence à la voix du khabir, le guide de la caravane.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cahmeau
- cchameau
- chaemau
- chamaeu
- chameua
- chammeau
- chhameau
- chmaeau
- hcameau
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chameau - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).