bomb
\bɔmp\
The verdict
“bomb” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,901. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,901
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de bomben.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bomb · bomb · French
bomb · rank #34,901 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,901
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH boeufs
Nearest frequency peer: boeufs (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « bomb »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- blunt
blunt
65,103 corpus weight
- blés
blés
65,102 corpus weight
- boeufs
boeufs
65,101 corpus weight
- bomb
bomb
65,100 corpus weight
- boucs
boucs
65,098 corpus weight
- Bourguiba
Bourguiba
65,097 corpus weight
What this shows « bomb » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | bomb |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bɔmp\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #34,901 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bomb »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around bomb (IPA \bɔmp\), averb. Corpus frequency is #34,901 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de bomben.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for bomb, with forms such as "bbomb", "bmob", and "bobm". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bon", "box", "boy", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is bomb, spelled B-O-M-B.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de bomben.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbomb
- bmob
- bobm
- bombb
- bommb
- obmb
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bomb - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).