tomber dans les pâmes
\tɔ̃.be dɑ̃ le pam\
The verdict
“tomber dans les pâmes” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - S’évanouir, perdre connaissance.
| 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) |
Where “tomber dans les pâmes” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tomber dans les pâmes is 21 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɔ̃.be dɑ̃ le pam\. 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: "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.
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.
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Using “tomber dans les pâmes”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-O-M-B-E-R- -D-A-N-S- -L-E-S- -P-Â-M-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \tɔ̃.be dɑ̃ le pam\ (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.