trombes
\tʁɔ̃b\
The verdict
“trombes” is uncommon French (frequency #56,327 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,327
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de trombe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-trombes · trombes · French
trombes · rank #56,327 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,327
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH trimer
Nearest frequency peer: trimer (-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 « trombes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- transpercer
transpercer
43,678 corpus weight
- Tribeca
Tribeca
43,676 corpus weight
- trimer
trimer
43,675 corpus weight
- trombes
trombes
43,674 corpus weight
- trouduc
trouduc
43,673 corpus weight
- trouvai
trouvai
43,672 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « trombes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trombes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁɔ̃b\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #56,327 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « trombes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
trombes is uncommon French at frequency #56,327 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʁɔ̃b\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de trombe.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for trombes in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is trombes, spelled T-R-O-M-B-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de trombe.
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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