plombent
\plɔ̃b\
The verdict
“plombent” is uncommon French (frequency #67,003 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,003
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de plomber.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plombent · plombent · French
plombent · rank #67,003 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,003
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH plisse
Nearest frequency peer: plisse (-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 « plombent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- plaisantais
plaisantais
33,001 corpus weight
- plana
plana
33,000 corpus weight
- plisse
plisse
32,999 corpus weight
- plombent
plombent
32,998 corpus weight
- Poelvoorde
Poelvoorde
32,996 corpus weight
- Poiret
Poiret
32,995 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « plombent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plombent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \plɔ̃b\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #67,003 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « plombent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
plombent is uncommon French at frequency #67,003 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \plɔ̃b\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
plombent doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is plombent, spelled P-L-O-M-B-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de plomber.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de plomber.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how plombent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La Drees s’est intéressée au prix de vente accordé aux hôpitaux par les labos sur les statines, ces réducteurs de cholestérol qui plombent depuis des années les comptes de la Sécu.
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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