sombrero
\sɔ̃.bʁe.ʁo\
The verdict
“sombrero” is uncommon French (frequency #56,274 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,274
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grand chapeau à large bord, porté surtout en Amérique latine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sombrero · sombrero · French
sombrero · rank #56,274 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,274
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH solennelles
Nearest frequency peer: solennelles (-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 « sombrero »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Sodexo
Sodexo
43,731 corpus weight
- soignantes
soignantes
43,730 corpus weight
- solennelles
solennelles
43,728 corpus weight
- sombrero
sombrero
43,727 corpus weight
- sona
sona
43,726 corpus weight
- soporifique
soporifique
43,725 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sombrero » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sombrero |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɔ̃.bʁe.ʁo\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #56,274 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sombrero » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sombrero is uncommon French at frequency #56,274 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɔ̃.bʁe.ʁo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for sombrero, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is sombrero, spelled S-O-M-B-R-E-R-O.
Definition
- 1Grand chapeau à large bord, porté surtout en Amérique latine.
- 2Coup du sombrero.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sombrero appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans les rues se croisaient des Panamaniens bronzés de pure descendance espagnole, des nègres de la Jamaïque, de pittoresques Mexicains avec leurs immenses sombreros de paille multicolore.
Un mexicain basané... Est allongé sur le sol... Son sombrero sur le nez... En guise.... En guise... En guise, en guuuuuuuuiiiiiise... De parasol...
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); 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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