tombant
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,272
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
tombant is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui tombe, qui pend. Pronounced \tɔ̃.bɑ̃\. Often confused with tombent and tombons.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tombant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \tɔ̃.bɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #15,272 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tombant is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɔ̃.bɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #15,272 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for tombant, with forms such as "otmbant", "tmobant", and "tobmant". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "tombent", "tombons", "tordant", 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 tombant, spelled T-O-M-B-A-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui tombe, qui pend.
- 2Qualifie des cheveux longs qu’on laisse pendre.
- 3Qui décline, en parlant du jour.
- 4Se dit des armes (javelots, flèches, épées…) qui sont représentés pointe en bas contrairement à l’ordinaire. Pour les autres meubles, on dira plutôt renversé ou versé.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: otmbant,tmobant,tobmant,tomabnt,tombannt,tombantt,tombatn,tombbant,tombnat,tommbant,ttombant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tombant
Misspelling Variants of "tombant"
Frequency rank: #15,272 in French
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