bombasse
\bɔ̃.bas\
The verdict
“bombasse” is uncommon French (frequency #89,462 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,462
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Très belle femme, toutefois le suffixe -asse donne un côté légèrement péjoratif à ce mot que l'on utilise plutôt, pour une belle femme que l'on trouve, personnellement, vulgaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bombasse · bombasse · French
bombasse · rank #89,462 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,462
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH boirais
Nearest frequency peer: boirais (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « bombasse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bivouacs
bivouacs
10,543 corpus weight
- blafarde
blafarde
10,541 corpus weight
- boirais
boirais
10,540 corpus weight
- bombasse
bombasse
10,539 corpus weight
- bombyx
bombyx
10,538 corpus weight
- bonito
bonito
10,535 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bombasse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bombasse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔ̃.bas\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #89,462 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bombasse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bombasse is uncommon French at frequency #89,462 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɔ̃.bas\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Très belle femme, toutefois le suffixe -asse donne un côté légèrement péjoratif à ce mot que l'on utilise plutôt, pour une belle femme que l'on trouve, personnellement, vulgaire.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for bombasse in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is bombasse, spelled B-O-M-B-A-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Très belle femme, toutefois le suffixe -asse donne un côté légèrement péjoratif à ce mot que l'on utilise plutôt, pour une belle femme que l'on trouve, personnellement, vulgaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bombasse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un vieil ado dépressif tombe amoureux d’une belle blonde tandis qu’une bombasse brune lui propose de l’épouser.
Seulement, voilà Elyas avait déjà rompu avec Manon depuis un bon bout de temps et souhaitait vivement recoller les morceaux avec sa brune, sa « bombasse ».
This word in other languages
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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