ombre
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,488
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
ombre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Obscurité relative que cause un corps opaque en interceptant la lumière. Pronounced \ɔ̃bʁ\. It ranks #2,488 in French word frequency. Often confused with Omer and orbe.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ombre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ̃bʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,488 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ombre is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔ̃bʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,488 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 18 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for ombre, with forms such as "mobre", "obmre", and "ombbre". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "Omer", "orbe", "ordre", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is ombre, spelled O-M-B-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Obscurité relative que cause un corps opaque en interceptant la lumière.
- 2Absence de clarté ; obscurité ; nuit.
- 3Silhouette, contour projeté par la lumière et intercepté par un corps.
- 4Ce qui dissimule ou empêche de connaître, ce qui est caché, oublié, mystérieux.
- 5Personne anonyme.
- 6Fidèle ou inséparable compagnon.
- 7Être ou chose que l’ombre accompagne normalement mais qui brille par son absence.
- 8Personne amenée par un invité, convive.
- 9Vague forme humaine.
- 10Légère apparence.
- 11Apparence trompeuse, chimère.
- 12Âme après qu’elle a quitté le corps ; fantôme ; esprit.
- 13Personne ou chose personnifiée qui a cessé d’être ou perdu les qualités, les avantages qui faisaient sa force, sa grandeur, son éclat.
- 14Couleur sombre qu’on emploie dans un tableau pour ombrer et donner du relief aux parties éclairées → voir clair-obscur.
- 15En psychologie jungienne, parties de soi qui comportent les parts que l'on maintient ou rejette dans l'inconscient pour des motifs moraux ou sociaux.
- 16Ce qui attriste, inquiète, assombrit le moral, nuit à la sérénité de l’esprit, tristesse, spleen, mélancolie.
- 17Expression de tristesse, d’inquiétude.
- 18Voir ombre de.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mobre,obmre,ombbre,omber,ombrre,ommbre,omrbe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ombre
Misspelling Variants of "ombre"
Frequency rank: #2,488 in French
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