tombent
\tɔ̃b\
The verdict
“tombent” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,618. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,618
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de tomber.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tombent · tombent · French
tombent · rank #5,618 · 11 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,618
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH times
Nearest frequency peer: times (-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 « tombent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- thread
thread
94,386 corpus weight
- théories
théories
94,385 corpus weight
- times
times
94,384 corpus weight
- tombent
tombent
94,383 corpus weight
- verras
verras
94,381 corpus weight
- veuve
veuve
94,380 corpus weight
What this shows « tombent » 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 | tombent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tɔ̃b\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,618 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tombent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around tombent (IPA \tɔ̃b\), averb. Corpus frequency is #5,618 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for tombent, with forms such as "otmbent", "tmobent", and "tobment". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "tomber", "tombés", "tombez", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is tombent, spelled T-O-M-B-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de tomber.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de tomber.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tombent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ainsi, un producteur de produits alimentaires ne se nourrit jamais mieux que lorsque les prix de ses produits tombent catastrophiquement et que sa situation matérielle empire.
Couper le nori en petits morceaux au-dessus du riz pour qu’ils tombent naturellement sur le plat.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- otmbent
- tmobent
- tobment
- tombbent
- tombennt
- tombentt
- tombetn
- tombnet
- tomebnt
- tommbent
- ttombent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tombent - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tombent", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (11 here; floor ≥5).