maréchal de camp
\ma.ʁe.ʃal də kɑ̃\
The verdict
“maréchal de camp” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Grade d’officier général dans différentes armées européennes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-marechal-de-camp · maréchal de camp · French
maréchal de camp · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" 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 | maréchal de camp |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ʁe.ʃal də kɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “maréchal de camp” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
maréchal de camp is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.ʁe.ʃal də kɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Grade d’officier général dans différentes armées européennes.".
maréchal de camp has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is maréchal de camp, spelled M-A-R-É-C-H-A-L- -D-E- -C-A-M-P.
Definition
- 1Grade d’officier général dans différentes armées européennes.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.