tombante
\tɔ̃.bɑ̃t\
The verdict
“tombante” is uncommon French (frequency #63,416 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,416
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de tombant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tombante · tombante · French
tombante · rank #63,416 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,416
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tof
Nearest frequency peer: tof (-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 « tombante »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- timbales
timbales
36,588 corpus weight
- titrant
titrant
36,587 corpus weight
- tof
tof
36,586 corpus weight
- tombante
tombante
36,585 corpus weight
- Tommaso
Tommaso
36,584 corpus weight
- tourmentés
tourmentés
36,583 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tombante » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tombante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tɔ̃.bɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #63,416 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tombante » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tombante is uncommon French at frequency #63,416 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \tɔ̃.bɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de tombant.".
tombante doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is tombante, spelled T-O-M-B-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de tombant.
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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