Combourg
\kɔ̃.buʁ\
The verdict
“Combourg” is uncommon French (frequency #89,542 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,542
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département d’Ille-et-Vilaine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-combourg · Combourg · French
Combourg · rank #89,542 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,542
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH comblez
Nearest frequency peer: comblez (-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 « Combourg »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- colombiers
colombiers
10,462 corpus weight
- colériques
colériques
10,461 corpus weight
- comblez
comblez
10,460 corpus weight
- Combourg
Combourg
10,459 corpus weight
- commanderies
commanderies
10,458 corpus weight
- Commentry
Commentry
10,457 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Combourg » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Combourg |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.buʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #89,542 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Combourg » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Combourg is uncommon French at frequency #89,542 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \kɔ̃.buʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Combourg in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Combourg, spelled C-O-M-B-O-U-R-G.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département d’Ille-et-Vilaine.
- 2Canton français, situé dans le département d’Ille-et-Vilaine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Combourg appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sur l’acte de baptême de sa fille Julie-Marie-Agathe (la future comtesse de Farcy), le 2 septembre 1763, il put signer : René de Chateaubriand, chevalier, comte de Combourg.
Un mois plus tôt en effet, le commissaire Adamsberg avait délégué ses pouvoirs à Danglard et se hâtait, à huit heures du matin, de boucler son sac pour partir pour Combourg, dans cette Bretagne qu’il connaissait bien mal.
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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