sombres

\sɔ̃bʁ\

/\sɔ̃bʁ\/ adj

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The verdict

“sombres” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,378. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#7,378
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
9
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de sombre.

Corpus desk

Index FR-sombres · sombres · French

sombres · rank #7,378 · 11 variants · 9 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #7,378
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH significative

Nearest frequency peer: significative (-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 « sombres »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « sombres » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

sombres vs sommes
71% similar
sombres vs sonores
71% similar
sombres vs sobre
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for sombres
PropertyValue
Headwordsombres
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\sɔ̃bʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#7,378
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sombres »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).sombresse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « significative » (#7,377), « spectateur » (#7,379), « signaux » (#7,376). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « sombres » est au #7,378. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around sombres (IPA \sɔ̃bʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #7,378 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de sombre.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for sombres, with forms such as "osmbres", "smobres", and "sobmres". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "sommes", "sonores", "sobre", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is sombres, spelled S-O-M-B-R-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de sombre.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how sombres appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. L’amplitude du signal de contour est rendu dépendant du niveau du signal vidéo afin de débruiter le signal dans les zones sombres de l’image.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • osmbres
  • smobres
  • sobmres
  • sombbres
  • sombers
  • sombress
  • sombrres
  • sombrse
  • sommbres
  • somrbes
  • ssombres

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sombres - 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.

osmbres2smobres2sobmres2sombbres1sombers2sombress1sombrres1sombrse2
Edit distance from "sombres"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sombres"?
"sombres" is spelled S-O-M-B-R-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \sɔ̃bʁ\.
What does "sombres" mean?
As an adjective, "sombres" means: Pluriel de sombre.
What words are commonly confused with "sombres"?
"sombres" is commonly confused with "sommes", "sonores", "sobre". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sombres"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sombres" is \sɔ̃bʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sombres" come from?
"sombres" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sombres", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

signaux#7,376sentait#7,374ressens#7,366Étienne#7,393

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

rajouter11 variantsprières11 variantsprisons11 variantscamarade11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list