Which to use
“campo” and “campos” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #29,683
- “campo” frequency rank
- #35,414
- “campos” frequency rank
- 65097
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | campo | campos |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Place de Venise. | Congé accordé autrefois aux écoliers. |
Same sound, different letters: campo vs campos
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters. campo runs 5 letters (CVCCV) against campos's 6 (CVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: campo vs campos
This is the hard kind. campo and campos are pronounced identically (\kɑ̃.po\) 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) - “campo” sits inside “campos”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 65097, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
campo is recorded at frequency rank #29,683, classified as anoun, pronounced \kɑ̃.po\. campos is at rank #35,414, tagged as anoun, pronounced \kɑ̃.po\.
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 65097, this pair ranks #73,848 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of campo vs campos
Shared letters: acmop. Private to "campo": -. Private to "campos": s.
"campo" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV · "campos" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "campo" for "campos" ever safe?
Which is more common, "campo" or "campos"?
After this comparison
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "campo" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "campos" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #73,848 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "campo" and "campos" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "campos vs compos". 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 #73,848 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.