pompes funèbres
\pɔ̃p fy.nɛbʁ\
The verdict
“pompes funèbres” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Organisme en charge de l’organisation des funérailles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pompes-funebres · pompes funèbres · French
pompes funèbres · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 | pompes funèbres |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔ̃p fy.nɛbʁ\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pompes funèbres » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pompes funèbres is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔ̃p fy.nɛbʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Organisme en charge de l’organisation des funérailles.".
pompes funèbres doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is pompes funèbres, spelled P-O-M-P-E-S- -F-U-N-È-B-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Organisme en charge de l’organisation des funérailles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pompes funèbres appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce fut alors que le jeune et bouillant officier eut besoin de toute sa force pour résister au désir de violer son serment. Il prit le bras de Château-Renaud et l’entraîna rapidement vers le caveau, devant lequel les employés des pompes funèbres venaient de déposer les deux cercueils.
Et je n'oublie pas les Pompes funèbres, représentées par le classique quadragénaire portant le deuil comme un uniforme, placier en bières et monuments assez habile pour ne pas marquer sa déception de ce que la famille eût un caveau à Soledot, Maine-et-Loire, mais s'emparant immédiatement du transport qui toutefois, au-dessus de trois cents kilomètres, mon…
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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.