pompes funèbres
\pɔ̃p fy.nɛbʁ\
The verdict
“pompes funèbres” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Organisme en charge de l’organisation des funérailles.
| 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) |
Where “pompes funèbres” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pompes funèbres is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɔ̃p fy.nɛbʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
This word in other languages
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.
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Using “pompes funèbres”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-O-M-P-E-S- -F-U-N-È-B-R-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pɔ̃p fy.nɛbʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.