Bombay
\bɔ̃.bɛ\
The verdict
“Bombay” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,376. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,376
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Une des principales villes d’Inde, capitale du Maharashtra.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bombay · Bombay · French
Bombay · rank #20,376 · 9 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,376
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH boko
Nearest frequency peer: boko (-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 « Bombay »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- beurk
beurk
79,628 corpus weight
- biathlon
biathlon
79,627 corpus weight
- boko
boko
79,626 corpus weight
- Bombay
Bombay
79,625 corpus weight
- boost
boost
79,624 corpus weight
- bouleversem…
bouleversements
79,623 corpus weight
What this shows « Bombay » 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 | Bombay |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bɔ̃.bɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #20,376 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Bombay »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Bombay (IPA \bɔ̃.bɛ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #20,376 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Une des principales villes d’Inde, capitale du Maharashtra.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Bombay, with forms such as "bbombay", "bmobay", and "bobmay". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "Bombe", "bombes", "Boulay", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Bombay, spelled B-O-M-B-A-Y.
Definition
- 1Une des principales villes d’Inde, capitale du Maharashtra.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Bombay appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour l'instant, seules des restrictions régionales sont imposées. La ville de Bombay, principal foyer d'explosion des cas de COVID-19 en Inde, est à nouveau sous le coup d'un couvre-feu.
Un peu partout dans le pays, les réseaux de prostitution enlèvent des milliers de gamines pour les envoyer dans le terrible quartier de Kamathirupa, à Bombay, où elles sont vendues, battues et asservies — on y trouve la plus forte concentration de maisons closes au monde.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbombay
- bmobay
- bobmay
- bomaby
- bombayy
- bombbay
- bombya
- bommbay
- obmbay
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Bombay - 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 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).