tombaient
\tɔ̃.bɛ\
The verdict
“tombaient” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,006. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,006
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de tomber.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tombaient · tombaient · French
tombaient · rank #30,006 · 13 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,006
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH titrée
Nearest frequency peer: titrée (-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 « tombaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- terroirs
terroirs
69,999 corpus weight
- titi
titi
69,997 corpus weight
- titrée
titrée
69,996 corpus weight
- tombaient
tombaient
69,995 corpus weight
- topographiq…
topographique
69,994 corpus weight
- tron
tron
69,992 corpus weight
What this shows « tombaient » 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 | tombaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tɔ̃.bɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #30,006 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tombaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around tombaient (IPA \tɔ̃.bɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #30,006 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de tomber.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for tombaient, with forms such as "otmbaient", "tmobaient", and "tobmaient". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "tombent", "tombant", "tombait", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is tombaient, spelled T-O-M-B-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de tomber.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tombaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’eau frangeait les ramures, alourdissait les fils d’araignée, imbibait les écorces gluantes, et des feuilles tombaient, çà et là, en tournant, dans le tranquille égouttement, dans le grand calme profond.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- otmbaient
- tmobaient
- tobmaient
- tomabient
- tombaeint
- tombaiennt
- tombaientt
- tombaietn
- tombainet
- tombbaient
- tombiaent
- tommbaient
- ttombaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tombaient - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).