tomber dans les pâmes
\tɔ̃.be dɑ̃ le pam\
The verdict
“tomber dans les pâmes” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - S’évanouir, perdre connaissance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tomber-dans-les-pames · tomber dans les pâmes · French
tomber dans les pâmes · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 21 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tomber dans les pâmes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tɔ̃.be dɑ̃ le pam\ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
tomber dans les pâmes is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \tɔ̃.be dɑ̃ le pam\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "S’évanouir, perdre connaissance.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tomber dans les pâmes, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 dans les pâmes, spelled T-O-M-B-E-R- -D-A-N-S- -L-E-S- -P-Â-M-E-S.
Definition
- 1S’évanouir, perdre connaissance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tomber dans les pâmes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’on avait aussi sujet de tomber dans les pâmes devant une collection de bandages croisés sur des torses qu’il épousaient étroitement, ou des boucles d’oreille d’hémoglobine, ou encore, et les interjections fusaient, une tête de clown dont le maquillage s’écroûtait de balafres sanguinolentes…
Synonyms
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.