comblement
\kɔ̃.ble.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“comblement” is uncommon French (frequency #54,487 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,487
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de combler un creux, un vide.
Corpus desk
Index FR-comblement · comblement · French
comblement · rank #54,487 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,487
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH colors
Nearest frequency peer: colors (-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 « comblement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- colonisée
colonisée
45,516 corpus weight
- colors
colors
45,515 corpus weight
- comblement
comblement
45,514 corpus weight
- commères
commères
45,513 corpus weight
- comptabilis…
comptabilisation
45,512 corpus weight
- concevant
concevant
45,511 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « comblement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | comblement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.ble.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #54,487 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « comblement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
comblement is uncommon French at frequency #54,487 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃.ble.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for comblement, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is comblement, spelled C-O-M-B-L-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Action de combler un creux, un vide.
- 2Fait de se combler naturellement.
- 3Satisfaction d’une privation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how comblement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le comblement d’un fossé, d’un puits.
Des comblements très fréquents, dont la nature indiscutablement morainique est attestée par la présence de galets striés, occupent le plus souvent le confluent des vallons latéraux et des vallées qu'ils rejoignent ; […]
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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