combes
\kɔ̃b\
The verdict
“combes” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,288. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,288
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de combe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-combes · combes · French
combes · rank #29,288 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,288
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH collectionner
Nearest frequency peer: collectionner (-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 « combes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- coalitions
coalitions
70,716 corpus weight
- coffrets
coffrets
70,715 corpus weight
- collectionn…
collectionner
70,714 corpus weight
- combes
combes
70,713 corpus weight
- combi
combi
70,712 corpus weight
- commentent
commentent
70,711 corpus weight
What this shows « combes » 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 | combes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃b\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #29,288 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « combes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around combes (IPA \kɔ̃b\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,288 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de combe.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for combes, with forms such as "ccombes", "cmobes", and "cobmes". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "come", "coms", "comme", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 combes, spelled C-O-M-B-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de combe.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccombes
- cmobes
- cobmes
- combbes
- combess
- combse
- comebs
- commbes
- ocmbes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of combes - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "combes", 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).