tombiez
\tɔ̃.bje\
The verdict
“tombiez” is uncommon French (frequency #91,234 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,234
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de tomber.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tombiez · tombiez · French
tombiez · rank #91,234 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,234
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tirerais
Nearest frequency peer: tirerais (-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 « tombiez »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tilsit
tilsit
8,771 corpus weight
- Timbaland
Timbaland
8,770 corpus weight
- tirerais
tirerais
8,768 corpus weight
- tombiez
tombiez
8,767 corpus weight
- tontine
tontine
8,766 corpus weight
- touchèrent
touchèrent
8,763 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tombiez » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tombiez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tɔ̃.bje\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #91,234 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tombiez » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tombiez is uncommon French at frequency #91,234 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \tɔ̃.bje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for tombiez in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is tombiez, spelled T-O-M-B-I-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de tomber.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de tomber.
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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