hombres
\ɔ̃bʁ\
The verdict
“hombres” is uncommon French (frequency #83,023 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,023
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de hombre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hombres · hombres · French
hombres · rank #83,023 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,023
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Hofer
Nearest frequency peer: Hofer (-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 « hombres »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Hebei
Hebei
16,983 corpus weight
- HLA
HLA
16,980 corpus weight
- Hofer
Hofer
16,979 corpus weight
- hombres
hombres
16,978 corpus weight
- houillère
houillère
16,977 corpus weight
- hydroliennes
hydroliennes
16,974 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hombres » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hombres |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ̃bʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #83,023 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hombres » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hombres is uncommon French at frequency #83,023 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔ̃bʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de hombre.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for hombres, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is hombres, spelled H-O-M-B-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de hombre.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).