tombée de la brume
\tɔ̃.be də la bʁym\
The verdict
“tombée de la brume” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - L’arrivée de la brume du soir, le moment de fin de journée où la brume tombe généralement dans une région donnée.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tombée de la brume |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɔ̃.be də la bʁym\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tombée de la brume” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tombée de la brume is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɔ̃.be də la bʁym\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "L’arrivée de la brume du soir, le moment de fin de journée où la brume tombe généralement dans une région donnée.".
No misspelling variants are generated for tombée de la brume in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 tombée de la brume, spelled T-O-M-B-É-E- -D-E- -L-A- -B-R-U-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1L’arrivée de la brume du soir, le moment de fin de journée où la brume tombe généralement dans une région donnée.
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- The one correct French spelling is T-O-M-B-É-E- -D-E- -L-A- -B-R-U-M-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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