omble
\ɔ̃bl\
The verdict
“omble” is uncommon French (frequency #96,198 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,198
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Poisson d’eau douce de la famille des salmonidés et du genre Salvelinus.
Corpus desk
Index FR-omble · omble · French
omble · rank #96,198 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,198
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH offertoire
Nearest frequency peer: offertoire (-2 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 « omble »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- octroya
octroya
3,807 corpus weight
- offensantes
offensantes
3,806 corpus weight
- offertoire
offertoire
3,805 corpus weight
- omble
omble
3,803 corpus weight
- Omsk
Omsk
3,801 corpus weight
- onto
onto
3,800 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « omble » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | omble |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ̃bl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #96,198 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « omble » en français
Rare enough to double-check
omble is uncommon French at frequency #96,198 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔ̃bl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Poisson d’eau douce de la famille des salmonidés et du genre Salvelinus.".
omble has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 omble, spelled O-M-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Poisson d’eau douce de la famille des salmonidés et du genre Salvelinus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how omble appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle se prépara de l’'omble à la poêle, mit La Ruée vers l’or dans le lecteur de DVD et s’assit avec son dîner.
This word in other languages
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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