champel

adj

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The verdict

“champel” is uncommon French (frequency #95,681 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#95,681
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - De champ, qui a lieu dans un champ (de bataille).

Corpus desk

Index FR-champel · champel · French

champel · rank #95,681 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #95,681
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH chamaille

Nearest frequency peer: chamaille (-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 « champel »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « champel » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for champel
PropertyValue
Headwordchampel
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
Letters7
Frequency rank#95,681
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « champel » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).champeltombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « chamaille » (#95,680), « chapin » (#95,682), « CESS » (#95,679). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « champel » est au #95,681. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

champel is uncommon French at frequency #95,681 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "De champ, qui a lieu dans un champ (de bataille).".

Zero misspellings are on record for champel in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is champel, spelled C-H-A-M-P-E-L.

Definition

  1. 1
    De champ, qui a lieu dans un champ (de bataille).

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how champel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. & si poi as homes pur bataille champel
  2. estur champel

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "champel"?
"champel" is spelled C-H-A-M-P-E-L.
What does "champel" mean?
As an adjective, "champel" means: De champ, qui a lieu dans un champ (de bataille).
What language does "champel" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "champel", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

cavaler#95,672Castets#95,668chitine#95,694Cimbres#95,699

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list