lombarde
\lɔ̃.baʁd\
The verdict
“lombarde” is uncommon French (frequency #60,929 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,929
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vent d'est qui souffle sur les crêtes frontalières des Alpes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lombarde · lombarde · French
lombarde · rank #60,929 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,929
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH litanies
Nearest frequency peer: litanies (-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 « lombarde »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Lisboa
Lisboa
39,075 corpus weight
- lises
lises
39,074 corpus weight
- litanies
litanies
39,073 corpus weight
- lombarde
lombarde
39,072 corpus weight
- lotions
lotions
39,071 corpus weight
- luttaient
luttaient
39,070 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lombarde » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lombarde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɔ̃.baʁd\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #60,929 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lombarde » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lombarde is uncommon French at frequency #60,929 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lɔ̃.baʁd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Vent d'est qui souffle sur les crêtes frontalières des Alpes.".
lombarde doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 lombarde, spelled L-O-M-B-A-R-D-E.
Definition
- 1Vent d'est qui souffle sur les crêtes frontalières des Alpes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lombarde appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au Pas des Ladres, on reçut la lombarde, vent d’est italien, soudain levé, qui arrache la neige par plaques et enflamme les crêtes d’un incendie blanc.
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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