plombisme
\plɔ̃.bism\
The verdict
“plombisme” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonyme de saturnisme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plombisme · plombisme · French
plombisme · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plombisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \plɔ̃.bism\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « plombisme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
plombisme is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \plɔ̃.bism\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Synonyme de saturnisme.".
plombisme doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is plombisme, spelled P-L-O-M-B-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Synonyme de saturnisme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how plombisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un diagnostic différentiel s’impose donc pour éliminer l’hypothèse de la névrite éthylique et aussi parfois de la névrite périphérique par plombisme (saturnisme) chronique, une intoxication par l’arséniate de plomb pouvant d’ailleurs entraîner une superposition de signes cliniques.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.