webcam

/\wɛb.kam\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#20,605

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

webcam is aFrenchnoun. It means: Caméra numérique qui permet de communiquer avec l’image et parfois le son par les protocoles du Web. Pronounced \wɛb.kam\.

Key facts for webcam
PropertyValue
Headwordwebcam
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\wɛb.kam\
Letters6
Frequency rank#20,605
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of webcam in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for webcam is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \wɛb.kam\. Corpus data places it at rank #20,605 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Caméra numérique qui permet de communiquer avec l’image et parfois le son par les protocoles du Web.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for webcam, with forms such as "ewbcam", "wbecam", and "webacm". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is webcam, spelled W-E-B-C-A-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Caméra numérique qui permet de communiquer avec l’image et parfois le son par les protocoles du Web.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ewbcam,wbecam,webacm,webbcam,webcamm,webccam,webcma,wecbam,wwebcam

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for webcam

Misspelling Variants of "webcam"

ewbcam6wbecam6webacm6webbcam7webcamm7webccam7webcma6wecbam6
Misspelling Variants of "webcam"

Frequency rank: #20,605 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "webcam"?
"webcam" is spelled W-E-B-C-A-M. The IPA pronunciation is \wɛb.kam\.
What does "webcam" mean?
As a noun, "webcam" means: Caméra numérique qui permet de communiquer avec l’image et parfois le son par les protocoles du Web.
What are common misspellings of "webcam"?
Common misspellings include "ewbcam", "wbecam", "webacm", "webbcam", "webcamm". The correct spelling is "webcam".
How do you pronounce "webcam"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "webcam" is \wɛb.kam\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "webcam" come from?
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Data Source: 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.