plomber
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#36,103
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
plomber is aFrenchverb. It means: Mettre, attacher, appliquer du plomb à quelque chose, en quelque lieu. Pronounced \plɔ̃.be\. Often confused with plombs and pomper.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plomber |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \plɔ̃.be\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #36,103 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for plomber is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \plɔ̃.be\. Corpus data places it at rank #36,103 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 14 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for plomber, with forms such as "lpomber", "pllomber", and "plmober". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "plombs", "pomper", "plonger", 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 plomber, spelled P-L-O-M-B-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mettre, attacher, appliquer du plomb à quelque chose, en quelque lieu.
- 2Vernir avec du plomb, en parlant de la vaisselle de terre.
- 3Remplir la cavité d’une dent cariée avec du plomb, un amalgame ou une autre substance métallique.
- 4Tirer un coup de feu sur quelqu’un ou quelque chose.
- 5Appliquer un petit sceau de plomb sur des ballots, des caisses, etc., pour marquer qu’ils ont payé les droits, ou pour empêcher qu’ils ne soient ouverts.
- 6Presser, battre, fouler des terres pour les affermir et afin qu’elles s’affaissent moins.
- 7Infliger une maladie, en particulier sexuellement transmissible
- 8Alourdir.
- 9Peser lourdement sur quelque chose.
- 10Entamer la bonne marche, le développement d’un projet.
- 11Entamer la réputation de quelqu’un.
- 12Se refermer, comme scellé par des plombs.
- 13Être à la verticale ; surplomber.
- 14Jeter sa boule très haut (en cloche) de telle manière que, retombant à terre, elle s’immobilise très vite.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: lpomber,pllomber,plmober,plobmer,plombber,plomberr,plombre,plomebr,plommber,polmber,pplomber
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for plomber
Misspelling Variants of "plomber"
Frequency rank: #36,103 in French
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Nearby French words
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