tombeau
French, noun/tɔ̃.bo/
tombeau is spelled T-O-M-B-E-A-U (7 letters) and appears 6.3 times per million words in written French, the 9,451st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tombeau is a French masculine noun meaning “tomb” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Sépulcre, monument élevé à la mémoire d’un (ou plusieurs) mort(s) à l’endroit de l’enterrement”.
What does tombeau mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetomb
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Sépulcre, monument élevé à la mémoire d’un (ou plusieurs) mort(s) à l’endroit de l’enterrement. 2. Personne à qui l’on peut confier un secret en toute sûreté, sans crainte qu’elle le trahisse. 3. La mort. 4. Fin, destruction.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of tombeau
- tombeaux plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tombeau?
- /tɔ̃.bo/
- \tɔ̃.bo\
- [tɔ̃.bo]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tombeau
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tombeau in French?
tombeau appears 6.3 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).