retombée
\ʁə.tɔ̃.be\
The verdict
“retombée” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,343. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,343
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Portion d’une voûte ou d’une arcade qui porte sur un mur ou sur un piédroit et qu’on peut poser sans cintre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-retombee · retombée · French
retombée · rank #30,343 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,343
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH ressors
Nearest frequency peer: ressors (-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 « retombée »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- reposez
reposez
69,662 corpus weight
- reprenez
reprenez
69,661 corpus weight
- reset
reset
69,660 corpus weight
- ressors
ressors
69,659 corpus weight
- retombée
retombée
69,658 corpus weight
- romanes
romanes
69,655 corpus weight
What this shows « retombée » 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 | retombée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.tɔ̃.be\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #30,343 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « retombée »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around retombée (IPA \ʁə.tɔ̃.be\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,343 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for retombée, with forms such as "ertombée", "reotmbée", and "retmobée". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "retomber", "retombées", "retombent", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is retombée, spelled R-E-T-O-M-B-É-E.
Definition
- 1Portion d’une voûte ou d’une arcade qui porte sur un mur ou sur un piédroit et qu’on peut poser sans cintre.
- 2Aspect de ce qui pend vers le sol.
- 3Mouvement de ce qui retombe.
- 4Transfert sectoriel.
- 5Conséquence annexe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how retombée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais, à demi cachée sous la retombée des arbres, une silhouette insolite accrochait les restes de lumière d’un reflet de métal : le long du quai ruiné était amarré un petit bâtiment.
Chaque fois que le brouillard se soulève, il découvre des étendues vertes sans bornes qu’il cache tout de suite sous sa retombée.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ertombée
- reotmbée
- retmobée
- retobmée
- retombbée
- retombee
- retombeé
- retommbée
- retomébe
- rettombée
- rretombée
- rteombée
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of retombée - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "retombée", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).