tombèrent
\tɔ̃.bɛʁ\
The verdict
“tombèrent” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,658. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,658
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de tomber.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tomberent · tombèrent · French
tombèrent · rank #42,658 · 15 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,658
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tolèrent
Nearest frequency peer: tolèrent (-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 « tombèrent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- thorium
thorium
57,346 corpus weight
- Toledo
Toledo
57,345 corpus weight
- tolèrent
tolèrent
57,344 corpus weight
- tombèrent
tombèrent
57,343 corpus weight
- toucha
toucha
57,342 corpus weight
- toulonnais
toulonnais
57,341 corpus weight
What this shows « tombèrent » 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 | tombèrent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tɔ̃.bɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #42,658 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tombèrent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around tombèrent (IPA \tɔ̃.bɛʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #42,658 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de tomber.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for tombèrent, with forms such as "otmbèrent", "tmobèrent", and "tobmèrent". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "tomberont", "tombent", "tolèrent", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented 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 tombèrent, spelled T-O-M-B-È-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de tomber.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tombèrent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Méprisant le débarcadère cimenté, incongru dans ce désert, Monique s’en alla accoster dans une anse ombreuse, fief d’innombrables zagayas, qui tombèrent en arrêt, agitèrent leurs gros yeux noirs au-dessus de leurs corps translucides, puis s’élancèrent chacun vers son terrier.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- otmbèrent
- tmobèrent
- tobmèrent
- tombbèrent
- tomberent
- tombrèent
- tombèernt
- tombèrennt
- tombèrentt
- tombèretn
- tombèrnet
- tombèrrent
- tommbèrent
- tomèbrent
- ttombèrent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tombèrent - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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