Dombes

\dɔ̃b\

/\dɔ̃b\/ name

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The verdict

“Dombes” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,707. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#46,707
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Région marécageuse française, située dans le département de l’Ain.

Corpus desk

Index FR-dombes · Dombes · French

Dombes · rank #46,707 · 9 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #46,707
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH dorsal

Nearest frequency peer: dorsal (+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 « Dombes »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Dombes » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Dombes vs dome
50% similar
Dombes vs doses
50% similar
Dombes vs dotés
33% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Dombes
PropertyValue
HeadwordDombes
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\dɔ̃b\
Letters6
Frequency rank#46,707
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Dombes »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Dombesse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « dorsal » (#46,708), « documentées » (#46,705), « douées » (#46,709). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « Dombes » est au #46,707. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around Dombes (IPA \dɔ̃b\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #46,707 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Région marécageuse française, située dans le département de l’Ain.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Dombes, with forms such as "ddombes", "dmobes", and "dobmes". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "dome", "doses", "dotés", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 Dombes, spelled D-O-M-B-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Région marécageuse française, située dans le département de l’Ain.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Dombes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La seconde, c'est que le pays dénommé Franc-Lyonnais se divise, non-seulement en deux parties bien distinctes, mais se trouve composé surtout de portions de communes ou paroisses dont le reste dépend du Lyonnais, de la Bresse ou de la Dombes.
  2. La scirpaie est répartie sur de faibles surfaces, principalement sur le littoral du Finistère, les étangs palavasiens, la Camargue ainsi que dans les régions d’étangs tels que la Dombes et la Brenne.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ddombes
  • dmobes
  • dobmes
  • dombbes
  • dombess
  • dombse
  • domebs
  • dommbes
  • odmbes

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Dombes - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

ddombes1dmobes2dobmes2dombbes1dombess1dombse2domebs2dommbes1
Edit distance from "Dombes"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Dombes"?
"Dombes" is spelled D-O-M-B-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \dɔ̃b\.
What does "Dombes" mean?
As a proper noun, "Dombes" means: Région marécageuse française, située dans le département de l’Ain.
What words are commonly confused with "Dombes"?
"Dombes" is commonly confused with "dome", "doses", "dotés". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Dombes"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Dombes" is \dɔ̃b\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Dombes" come from?
"Dombes" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Dombes", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

dorsal#46,708douées#46,709dunlop#46,711deacon#46,690

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

dribble9 variantscotons9 variantsemmerdé9 variantscompil9 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list