pomme

/\pɔm\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,518

in French word usage

Misspellings

5

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

pomme is aFrenchnoun. It means: Fruit du pommier, de forme ronde, à la chair ferme et de saveur diverse. Pronounced \pɔm\. It ranks #4,518 in French word frequency. Often confused with pose and pote.

Key facts for pomme
PropertyValue
Headwordpomme
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pɔm\
Letters5
Frequency rank#4,518
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of pomme in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for pomme is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɔm\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,518 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 16 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for pomme, with forms such as "opmme", "pmome", and "pome". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pose", "pote", "pope", 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 pomme, spelled P-O-M-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Fruit du pommier, de forme ronde, à la chair ferme et de saveur diverse.
  2. 2
    Tout objet en forme de pomme.
  3. 3
    Tout objet en forme de pomme.
  4. 4
    Tout objet en forme de pomme.
  5. 5
    Tout objet en forme de pomme.
  6. 6
    Tout objet en forme de pomme.
  7. 7
    Fruit de plusieurs végétaux.
  8. 8
    Fruit interdit du paradis terrestre.
  9. 9
    Pomme de terre.
  10. 10
    Tête, visage d’une personne.
  11. 11
    Ma, ta, sa, notre, votre ou leur.
  12. 12
    Personne naïve, dont on se moque facilement.
  13. 13
    Prix de beauté, par allusion au mythologique jugement de Pâris.
  14. 14
    Personne amérindienne acculturée par les Blancs.
  15. 15
    Meuble représentant un disque de couleur verte dans les armoiries. Il s’agit d’un ancien nom utilisé pour le tourteau de sinople. À rapprocher de besant, besant-tourteau, buse, gulpe, guse, heurte, œil de faucon, ogoesse, plate, somme, tourteau, tourteau-besant et volet.
  16. 16
    Nouage de forme sphérique mono ou multibrin venant recouvrir une surface pour la décorer, la renforcer ou la protéger. Les pommes sont généralement désignées par leur nombre de faces (pomme à 36 faces par exemple). Elles présentent souvent une asymétrie formant un trou par lequel un élément pourra entrer dans le nœud (barre en bois, corde d’escalier…). Quelques unes parmi les plus utilisées ont un nom spécifique tels que la pomme de touline, la pomme de tireveille, la pomme de marchepied… Pour une petite pomme, on parlera plutôt de bouton.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: opmme,pmome,pome,pomem,ppomme

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pomme

Misspelling Variants of "pomme"

opmme5pmome5pome4pomem5ppomme6
Misspelling Variants of "pomme"

Frequency rank: #4,518 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pomme"?
"pomme" is spelled P-O-M-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pɔm\.
What does "pomme" mean?
As a noun, "pomme" means: Fruit du pommier, de forme ronde, à la chair ferme et de saveur diverse.
What words are commonly confused with "pomme"?
"pomme" is commonly confused with "pose", "pote", "pope". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "pomme"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pomme" is \pɔm\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pomme" come from?
"pomme" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.