ombre

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The English entry for ombre is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈɒm.bə/. Corpus data places it at rank #47,803 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A Spanish card game, usually played by three people. It involves forty cards, omitting the ranks of 8, 9 and 10.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for ombre, with forms such as "mobre", "obmre", and "ombbre". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "ore", "omer", "OBE", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French hombre, from Spanish hombre, literally, a man, from Latin homō. Doublet of gome, hombre, homo, and omi. See human. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is ombre, spelled O-M-B-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.