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“campement” and “campements” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#14,874
“campement” frequency rank
#34,916
“campements” frequency rank
49790
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature campement campements
Definition Action de camper, ou le camp lui-même. Pluriel de campement.

Same sound, different letters: campement vs campements

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. campement runs 9 letters (CVCCVCVCC) against campements's 10 (CVCCVCVCCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

9 ch
campement
10 ch
campements

Same sound, different spelling - campement / campements

This is the hard kind. campement and campements are pronounced identically (\kɑ̃p.mɑ̃\) and both work as anoun. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “campement” sits inside “campements”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 49790, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

campement is recorded at frequency rank #14,874, classified as anoun, pronounced \kɑ̃p.mɑ̃\. campements is at rank #34,916, tagged as anoun, pronounced \kɑ̃p.mɑ̃\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 49790, this pair ranks #167,835 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of campement vs campements

Shared letters: acemnpt. Private to "campement": -. Private to "campements": s.

"campement" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCVCC  ·  "campements" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCVCCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • campement ← acmpement · camepment · cammpement · campeemnt · campemennt · campementt · campemetn · campemment
  • campements ← acmpements · camepments · cammpements · campeemnts · campemennts · campemenst · campementss · campementts

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "campement" and "campements" be used interchangeably?
No. They are pronounced the same (\kɑ̃p.mɑ̃\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Which is more common, "campement" or "campements"?
"campement" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #14,874 in our French list, against #34,916 for "campements". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've separated the homophone pair "campement" / "campements". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

  • Full dictionary entry for "campement" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "campements" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #167,835 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "campement" and "campements" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "campement vs campent". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #167,835 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list