webcam
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\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | webcam |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \wɛb.kam\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #20,605 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Caméra numérique qui permet de communiquer avec l’image et parfois le son par les protocoles du Web.
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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"
Frequency rank: #20,605 in French
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