bombs
\bɒmz\
The verdict
“bombs” is uncommon French (frequency #97,716 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,716
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe bomb
Corpus desk
Index FR-bombs · bombs · French
bombs · rank #97,716 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,716
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bodrum
Nearest frequency peer: bodrum (-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 « bombs »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bodrum
bodrum
2,286 corpus weight
- bombs
bombs
2,285 corpus weight
- bondis
bondis
2,284 corpus weight
- Bondoufle
Bondoufle
2,283 corpus weight
- bories
bories
2,282 corpus weight
- Bothwell
Bothwell
2,281 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bombs » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bombs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bɒmz\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #97,716 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bombs » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bombs is uncommon French at frequency #97,716 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bɒmz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe bomb".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bombs, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is bombs, spelled B-O-M-B-S.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe bomb
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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