tomme
\tɔm\
The verdict
“tomme” is uncommon French (frequency #54,298 among 164,488 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,298
- frequency rank, French
- 164,488
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Fromage de montagne au lait de vache ou de chèvre, existant en plusieurs variétés : pâte molle, persillée ou pressée non cuite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tomme · tomme · French
tomme · rank #54,298 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,298
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 164,488
- PHOTO-FINISH Tobie
Nearest frequency peer: Tobie (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “tomme”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Tijuana
Tijuana
45,706 corpus weight
- tirades
tirades
45,705 corpus weight
- Tobie
Tobie
45,704 corpus weight
- tomme
tomme
45,703 corpus weight
- Tongres
Tongres
45,702 corpus weight
- topique
topique
45,700 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “tomme” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tomme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɔm\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #54,298 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tomme” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
tomme is uncommon French at frequency #54,298 among 164,488 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɔm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fromage de montagne au lait de vache ou de chèvre, existant en plusieurs variétés : pâte molle, persillée ou pressée non cuite.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for tomme in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is tomme, spelled T-O-M-M-E.
Definition
- 1Fromage de montagne au lait de vache ou de chèvre, existant en plusieurs variétés : pâte molle, persillée ou pressée non cuite.
This word in other languages
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.