pommade
\pɔ.mad\
The verdict
“pommade” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,480. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,480
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Composition molle et onctueuse, faite avec des substances médicamenteuses ou des parfums mêlés à des corps gras.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pommade · pommade · French
pommade · rank #29,480 · 8 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,480
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH PN
Nearest frequency peer: PN (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « pommade »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- planétaires
planétaires
70,523 corpus weight
- PN
PN
70,522 corpus weight
- pommade
pommade
70,521 corpus weight
- populace
populace
70,520 corpus weight
- primates
primates
70,519 corpus weight
- princess
princess
70,518 corpus weight
What this shows « pommade » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pommade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔ.mad\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #29,480 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pommade »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around pommade (IPA \pɔ.mad\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,480 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for pommade, with forms such as "opmmade", "pmomade", and "pomade". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "pomme", "pompage", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is pommade, spelled P-O-M-M-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1Composition molle et onctueuse, faite avec des substances médicamenteuses ou des parfums mêlés à des corps gras.
- 2Compliments, louanges
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pommade appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] à la fin du mois, je pouvais apporter à ma femme, une centaine de francs, qu’elle dépensait aussitôt en pommades, en glycérine, en menus objets avec lesquels elle se parait, se maquillait, se pomponnait.
La vaseline est la base la plus courante des pommades : on la rend plus adhésive en l’additionnant de lanoline […] qui absorbe plusieurs fois son poids d’eau.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opmmade
- pmomade
- pomade
- pomamde
- pommadde
- pommaed
- pommdae
- ppommade
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pommade - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).