ombre
/ˈɒm.bə/
"ombre" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ombre” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #47,803. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,803
- frequency rank, English
- 1,431
- “O” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A Spanish card game, usually played by three people. It involves forty cards, omitting the ranks of 8, 9 and 10.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ombre · ombre · English
ombre · rank #47,803 · 7 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,803
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,431
- PHOTO-FINISH Oma
Nearest frequency peer: Oma (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “ombre”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- nostra
nostra
52,202 corpus weight
- nudging
nudging
52,201 corpus weight
- Oma
Oma
52,199 corpus weight
- ombre
ombre
52,198 corpus weight
- Oran
Oran
52,195 corpus weight
- Ors
Ors
52,194 corpus weight
What this shows “ombre” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ombre |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɒm.bə/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #47,803 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “ombre”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around ombre (IPA /ˈɒm.bə/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,803 among 1,431 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A Spanish card game, usually played by three people. It involves forty cards, omitting the ranks of 8, 9 and 10.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for ombre, with forms such as "mobre", "obmre", and "ombbre". 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 also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "ore", "omer", "OBE", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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. The correct English form is ombre, spelled O-M-B-R-E.
Definition
- 1A Spanish card game, usually played by three people. It involves forty cards, omitting the ranks of 8, 9 and 10.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ombre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Belinda now, whom chirst of fame invites, / Burns to encounter two advent'rous Knights, / At Ombre singly to decide their doom / And swells her breast with conquests yet to com
When ombre calls, his hand and heart are free, / And, joined to two, he fails not to make three.
Etymology
Borrowed from French hombre, from Spanish hombre, literally, a man, from Latin homō. Doublet of gome, hombre, homo, and omi. See human.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mobre
- obmre
- ombbre
- omber
- ombrre
- ommbre
- omrbe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ombre - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Same letter count
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