tombée de la nuit
\tɔ̃.be də la nɥi\
The verdict
“tombée de la nuit” 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
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Les minutes qui précèdent la nuit.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tombée de la nuit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɔ̃.be də la nɥi\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tombée de la nuit” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tombée de la nuit is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɔ̃.be də la nɥi\. 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: "Les minutes qui précèdent la nuit.".
tombée de la nuit doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is tombée de la nuit, spelled T-O-M-B-É-E- -D-E- -L-A- -N-U-I-T.
Definition
- 1Les minutes qui précèdent la nuit.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “tombée de la nuit”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-O-M-B-É-E- -D-E- -L-A- -N-U-I-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \tɔ̃.be də la nɥi\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.