comble
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,166
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
comble is aFrenchnoun. It means: Faîte ; couronnement d’un édifice. Pronounced \kɔ̃bl\. It ranks #7,166 in French word frequency. Often confused with come and comme.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | comble |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃bl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #7,166 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for comble is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃bl\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,166 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for comble, with forms such as "ccomble", "cmoble", and "cobmle". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "come", "comme", "comte", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is comble, spelled C-O-M-B-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Faîte ; couronnement d’un édifice.
- 2Partie d’un édifice sur laquelle repose immédiatement la couverture.
- 3Synonyme de toit.
- 4Point culminant ; degré le plus haut.
- 5(avec de) La situation la plus exemplaire, le paroxysme d'une idée, d'un phénomène.
- 6Chef réduit à moins de la moitié de sa hauteur ordinaire.
- 7Partie supérieure du pavillon, sommet de la couronne.
- 8Intervalle séparant les têtes d'un ouvrage de vannerie.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccomble,cmoble,cobmle,combble,combel,comblle,comlbe,commble,ocmble
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for comble
Misspelling Variants of "comble"
Frequency rank: #7,166 in French
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