tomber comme à Gravelotte
\tɔ̃.be kɔ.m‿a ɡʁav.lɔt\
The verdict
“tomber comme à Gravelotte” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 25
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Se dit quand il pleut fortement.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tomber comme à Gravelotte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tɔ̃.be kɔ.m‿a ɡʁav.lɔt\ |
| Letters | 25 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tomber comme à Gravelotte” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
tomber comme à Gravelotte is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \tɔ̃.be kɔ.m‿a ɡʁav.lɔt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tomber comme à Gravelotte, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 tomber comme à Gravelotte, spelled T-O-M-B-E-R- -C-O-M-M-E- -À- -G-R-A-V-E-L-O-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Se dit quand il pleut fortement.
- 2Qualifie une succession rapide d’événements.
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 “tomber comme à Gravelotte”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-O-M-B-E-R- -C-O-M-M-E- -À- -G-R-A-V-E-L-O-T-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \tɔ̃.be kɔ.m‿a ɡʁav.lɔt\ (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.