sombres
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,378
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
sombres is anFrenchadj. It means: Pluriel de sombre. Pronounced \sɔ̃bʁ\. It ranks #7,378 in French word frequency. Often confused with sommes and sonores.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sombres |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \sɔ̃bʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #7,378 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sombres is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɔ̃bʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,378 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pluriel de sombre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for sombres, with forms such as "osmbres", "smobres", and "sobmres". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.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 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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is sombres, spelled S-O-M-B-R-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de sombre.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: osmbres,smobres,sobmres,sombbres,sombers,sombress,sombrres,sombrse,sommbres,somrbes,ssombres
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sombres
Misspelling Variants of "sombres"
Frequency rank: #7,378 in French
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