tombstone
The verdict
“tombstone” is uncommon French (frequency #85,328 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,328
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dans l’argot des surfeurs, être partiellement submergé par une vague avec le surf dressé
Corpus desk
Index FR-tombstone · tombstone · French
tombstone · rank #85,328 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,328
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tolérera
Nearest frequency peer: tolérera (-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 « tombstone »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- titulariser
titulariser
14,676 corpus weight
- toei
toei
14,675 corpus weight
- tolérera
tolérera
14,674 corpus weight
- tombstone
tombstone
14,673 corpus weight
- topinambour
topinambour
14,672 corpus weight
- torque
torque
14,671 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tombstone » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tombstone |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #85,328 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tombstone » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tombstone is uncommon French at frequency #85,328 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dans l’argot des surfeurs, être partiellement submergé par une vague avec le surf dressé".
No misspelling variants are generated for tombstone in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is tombstone, spelled T-O-M-B-S-T-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1Dans l’argot des surfeurs, être partiellement submergé par une vague avec le surf dressé
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tombstone appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Before the contest even started, Slater went down hard in a warmup session. He took a two-wave hold-down in the semifinals, his board tombstoning eerily for all to see — Avant même que la compétition ne commence, Slater a été mis à l’eau sévèrement pendant la session d’échauffement. Il s’est ramassé dans un rouleau de deux vagues dans la semi-finale, sa p…
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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