chamelle
\ʃa.mɛl\
The verdict
“chamelle” is uncommon French (frequency #86,532 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,532
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femelle du chameau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chamelle · chamelle · French
chamelle · rank #86,532 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,532
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Champagny
Nearest frequency peer: Champagny (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « chamelle »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- catalogués
catalogués
13,473 corpus weight
- cernent
cernent
13,471 corpus weight
- chamelle
chamelle
13,469 corpus weight
- Champagny
Champagny
13,468 corpus weight
- chantants
chantants
13,466 corpus weight
- Charlieu
Charlieu
13,465 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chamelle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chamelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.mɛl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #86,532 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chamelle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chamelle is uncommon French at frequency #86,532 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃa.mɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
chamelle doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is chamelle, spelled C-H-A-M-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Femelle du chameau.
- 2Personne méchante et désagréable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chamelle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je me rendis avec les chefs militaires aux tentes de Si Saïd, où on nous servit une collation de dattes et de lait de chamelle, une vieille tradition nomade sans doute.
Mohamed Hammadi […] est intarissable sur les vertus du lait de chamelle, qui se vend cinq fois plus cher que le lait de vache, qui se conserve bien à la chaleur et dont on peut extraire des principes antidiabétiques.
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); 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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).