Combray
\kɔ̃.bʁɛ\
The verdict
“Combray” is uncommon French (frequency #70,488 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,488
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Calvados.
Corpus desk
Index FR-combray · Combray · French
Combray · rank #70,488 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,488
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH comanche
Nearest frequency peer: comanche (-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 « Combray »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- collyre
collyre
29,516 corpus weight
- coloscopie
coloscopie
29,515 corpus weight
- comanche
comanche
29,514 corpus weight
- Combray
Combray
29,513 corpus weight
- coment
coment
29,512 corpus weight
- compass
compass
29,511 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Combray » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Combray |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.bʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #70,488 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Combray » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Combray is uncommon French at frequency #70,488 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \kɔ̃.bʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Combray, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Combray, spelled C-O-M-B-R-A-Y.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département du Calvados.
- 2Nom de la localité d’Illiers (aujourd’hui Illiers-Combray) dans l’œuvre de Marcel Proust.
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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