bombe incendiaire
\bɔ̃.b‿ɛ̃.sɑ̃.djɛʁ\
The verdict
“bombe incendiaire” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bombe destinée à provoquer un incendie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bombe-incendiaire · bombe incendiaire · French
bombe incendiaire · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-8 8 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bombe incendiaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔ̃.b‿ɛ̃.sɑ̃.djɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
bombe incendiaire is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɔ̃.b‿ɛ̃.sɑ̃.djɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bombe destinée à provoquer un incendie.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bombe incendiaire, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 bombe incendiaire, spelled B-O-M-B-E- -I-N-C-E-N-D-I-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Bombe destinée à provoquer un incendie.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.