plombée
The verdict
“plombée” is uncommon French (frequency #57,507 among 248,534 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,507
- frequency rank, French
- 248,534
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Féminin singulier de plombé.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plombée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #57,507 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “plombée” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
plombée is uncommon French at frequency #57,507 among 248,534 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de plombé.".
plombée has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is plombée, spelled P-L-O-M-B-É-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de plombé.
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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Using “plombée”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-L-O-M-B-É-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.