sombrent
\sɔ̃bʁ\
The verdict
“sombrent” is uncommon French (frequency #65,525 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,525
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de sombrer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sombrent · sombrent · French
sombrent · rank #65,525 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,525
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH songerait
Nearest frequency peer: songerait (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « sombrent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Soignies
Soignies
34,479 corpus weight
- Solesmes
Solesmes
34,478 corpus weight
- sombrent
sombrent
34,476 corpus weight
- songerait
songerait
34,475 corpus weight
- sonneur
sonneur
34,474 corpus weight
- sophistes
sophistes
34,473 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sombrent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sombrent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sɔ̃bʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #65,525 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sombrent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sombrent is uncommon French at frequency #65,525 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \sɔ̃bʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for sombrent, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is sombrent, spelled S-O-M-B-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de sombrer.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de sombrer.
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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