combler
\kɔ̃.ble\
The verdict
“combler” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,543. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,543
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Remplir jusque par dessus les bords.
Corpus desk
Index FR-combler · combler · French
combler · rank #7,543 · 11 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,543
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH collectivité
Nearest frequency peer: collectivité (-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 « combler »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- champignons
champignons
92,461 corpus weight
- cigarettes
cigarettes
92,460 corpus weight
- collectivité
collectivité
92,459 corpus weight
- combler
combler
92,458 corpus weight
- compenser
compenser
92,457 corpus weight
- compliquée
compliquée
92,456 corpus weight
What this shows « combler » 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 | combler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.ble\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #7,543 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « combler »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around combler (IPA \kɔ̃.ble\), averb. Corpus frequency is #7,543 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for combler, with forms such as "ccombler", "cmobler", and "cobmler". 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, "couler", "compter", "complet", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 combler, spelled C-O-M-B-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Remplir jusque par dessus les bords.
- 2Faire que ce qui était creux ne le soit plus.
- 3Remplir un vide, compenser un défaut.
- 4Satisfaire ; exaucer.
- 5Charger.
- 6Mettre le comble à quelque chose, le rendre complet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how combler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Combler une mesure.
Venise aura le sort d'Alger, […]. Un jour, par mesure sanitaire, on comblera tous les canaux. Il y passera des tramways de banlieue, c'est à dire des trains de cinq voitures.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccombler
- cmobler
- cobmler
- combbler
- combelr
- comblerr
- combller
- comblre
- comlber
- commbler
- ocmbler
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of combler - 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 "combler", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).