médecin de campagne
\med.sɛ̃ d(ə) kɑ̃.paɲ\
The verdict
“médecin de campagne” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Médecin généraliste qui pratique hors des centres urbains, caractérisé par une grande polyvalence et, du moins dans l'imaginaire populaire, par sa débrouillardise et son dévouement.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | médecin de campagne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \med.sɛ̃ d(ə) kɑ̃.paɲ\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “médecin de campagne” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
médecin de campagne is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \med.sɛ̃ d(ə) kɑ̃.paɲ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Médecin généraliste qui pratique hors des centres urbains, caractérisé par une grande polyvalence et, du moins dans l'imaginaire populaire, par sa débrouillardise et son dévouement.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for médecin de campagne in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is médecin de campagne, spelled M-É-D-E-C-I-N- -D-E- -C-A-M-P-A-G-N-E.
Definition
- 1Médecin généraliste qui pratique hors des centres urbains, caractérisé par une grande polyvalence et, du moins dans l'imaginaire populaire, par sa débrouillardise et son dévouement.
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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.
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- The one correct French spelling is M-É-D-E-C-I-N- -D-E- -C-A-M-P-A-G-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \med.sɛ̃ d(ə) kɑ̃.paɲ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.