bomber
\bɔ̃.be\
The verdict
“bomber” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,728. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,728
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rendre convexe, cintrer comme une bombe, arrondir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bomber · bomber · French
bomber · rank #36,728 · 9 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,728
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH blanchâtre
Nearest frequency peer: blanchâtre (-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 « bomber »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- biélorusse
biélorusse
63,276 corpus weight
- Blablacar
Blablacar
63,275 corpus weight
- blanchâtre
blanchâtre
63,274 corpus weight
- bomber
bomber
63,273 corpus weight
- Bosphore
Bosphore
63,272 corpus weight
- botaniques
botaniques
63,271 corpus weight
What this shows « bomber » 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 | bomber |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bɔ̃.be\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #36,728 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bomber »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around bomber (IPA \bɔ̃.be\), averb. Corpus frequency is #36,728 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for bomber, with forms such as "bbomber", "bmober", and "bobmer". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "boyer", "boxer", "bouger", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bomber, spelled B-O-M-B-E-R.
Definition
- 1Rendre convexe, cintrer comme une bombe, arrondir.
- 2Devenir convexe.
- 3Espérer en vain ; se gratter.
- 4Taguer, faire un graffiti, peindre avec une bombe aérosol de peinture.
- 5Charger une plate-bande de terre afin de le rendre convexe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bomber appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bomber un chemin, une rue, un ouvrage de sculpture, d’orfèvrerie, de menuiserie, etc. — Bomber le dos, l’échine, les épaules.
le pharmacien, avec son fils Napoléon entre ses jambes, bombait sa main contre son oreille pour ne pas perdre une seule syllabe.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbomber
- bmober
- bobmer
- bombber
- bomberr
- bombre
- bomebr
- bommber
- obmber
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bomber - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bomber", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).