sombrer
\sɔ̃.bʁe\
The verdict
“sombrer” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,008. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,008
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Être submergé, couler par l’effet soit d’un coup de vent, soit d’une voie d’eau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sombrer · sombrer · French
sombrer · rank #17,008 · 10 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,008
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH siéger
Nearest frequency peer: siéger (-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 « sombrer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- signalement
signalement
82,996 corpus weight
- signifiait
signifiait
82,995 corpus weight
- siéger
siéger
82,994 corpus weight
- sombrer
sombrer
82,993 corpus weight
- soumet
soumet
82,992 corpus weight
- stimulation
stimulation
82,991 corpus weight
What this shows « sombrer » 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 | sombrer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sɔ̃.bʁe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #17,008 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sombrer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around sombrer (IPA \sɔ̃.bʁe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #17,008 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for sombrer, with forms such as "osmbrer", "smobrer", and "sobmrer". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "Sommer", "sombres", "sommier", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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. The correct French form is sombrer, spelled S-O-M-B-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Être submergé, couler par l’effet soit d’un coup de vent, soit d’une voie d’eau.
- 2Être englouti, se perdre, disparaître.
- 3S'enliser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sombrer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La ville était détruite et deux grands transatlantiques avaient sombré dans le port encore plein de cadavres.
En pleine mer, des bâtiments sombrèrent, ou, désemparés par la tempête, n’échappèrent au naufrage que par des efforts inouïs.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osmbrer
- smobrer
- sobmrer
- sombbrer
- somberr
- sombrerr
- sombrrer
- sommbrer
- somrber
- ssombrer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sombrer - 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 "sombrer", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).