tombereaux
\tɔ̃.b(ə).ʁo\
The verdict
“tombereaux” is uncommon French (frequency #83,441 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,441
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de tombereau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tombereaux · tombereaux · French
tombereaux · rank #83,441 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,441
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH toises
Nearest frequency peer: toises (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « tombereaux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Théodule
Théodule
16,564 corpus weight
- tibétaines
tibétaines
16,563 corpus weight
- toises
toises
16,561 corpus weight
- tombereaux
tombereaux
16,560 corpus weight
- Torquemada
Torquemada
16,558 corpus weight
- totalisait
totalisait
16,557 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tombereaux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tombereaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɔ̃.b(ə).ʁo\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #83,441 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tombereaux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tombereaux is uncommon French at frequency #83,441 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɔ̃.b(ə).ʁo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de tombereau.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for tombereaux, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is tombereaux, spelled T-O-M-B-E-R-E-A-U-X.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de tombereau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tombereaux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comment le jeune cultivateur aurait-il pu désengranger de ses apprentissages la monstrueuse image relatant des tombereaux de cadavres de chevaux tirés par d’autres chevaux ?
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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