tombeau
\tɔ̃.bo\
The verdict
“tombeau” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,567. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,567
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sépulcre, monument élevé à la mémoire d’un (ou plusieurs) mort(s) à l’endroit de l’enterrement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tombeau · tombeau · French
tombeau · rank #9,567 · 9 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,567
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH toxique
Nearest frequency peer: toxique (+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 « tombeau »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Syrien
Syrien
90,437 corpus weight
- textile
textile
90,436 corpus weight
- tombeau
tombeau
90,434 corpus weight
- toxique
toxique
90,433 corpus weight
- trame
trame
90,432 corpus weight
- transit
transit
90,431 corpus weight
What this shows « tombeau » 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 | tombeau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɔ̃.bo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,567 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tombeau »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around tombeau (IPA \tɔ̃.bo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,567 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for tombeau, with forms such as "otmbeau", "tmobeau", and "tobmeau". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "tomber", "tombée", "tombés", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 tombeau, spelled T-O-M-B-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Sépulcre, monument élevé à la mémoire d’un (ou plusieurs) mort(s) à l’endroit de l’enterrement.
- 2Personne à qui l’on peut confier un secret en toute sûreté, sans crainte qu’elle le trahisse.
- 3La mort.
- 4Fin, destruction.
- 5Oraison funèbre ou recueil d’oraisons funèbres.
- 6Ensemble de pièces en l’honneur d’un compositeur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tombeau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette chapelle renferme le tombeau de l’évêque Radulphe, dont l’inscription donne la date de 1266, comme étant celle de la mort du prélat.
L’archéologie et l’anthropologie locales sont coutumières, on le sait, d’une grande sérénité dans l’affirmation. Ledit Poignant ne s’en est pas tenu là : à une portée de fusil du tombeau de Merlin, l’« archidruide », il a retrouvé le tombeau de « son épouse » Viviane !
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- otmbeau
- tmobeau
- tobmeau
- tombaeu
- tombbeau
- tombeua
- tomebau
- tommbeau
- ttombeau
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tombeau - 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.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).