trombone
\tʁɔ̃.bɔn\
The verdict
“trombone” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,761. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,761
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Instrument à vent, sorte de grande trompette à longs tubes recourbés.
Corpus desk
Index FR-trombone · trombone · French
trombone · rank #35,761 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,761
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH triton
Nearest frequency peer: triton (-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 « trombone »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- trempés
trempés
64,243 corpus weight
- tricheurs
tricheurs
64,242 corpus weight
- triton
triton
64,241 corpus weight
- trombone
trombone
64,240 corpus weight
- truand
truand
64,239 corpus weight
- tympans
tympans
64,238 corpus weight
What this shows « trombone » 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 | trombone |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁɔ̃.bɔn\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #35,761 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « trombone »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around trombone (IPA \tʁɔ̃.bɔn\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,761 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for trombone, with forms such as "rtombone", "tormbone", and "trmobone". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "trombe", "tombons", "Thrombose", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is trombone, spelled T-R-O-M-B-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1Instrument à vent, sorte de grande trompette à longs tubes recourbés.
- 2Celui qui joue du trombone.
- 3Petit objet utilisé pour maintenir solidaire temporairement une liasse de feuilles de papier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how trombone appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je voulais savoir ce que donnerait le son d’un trombone dans la grande salle des stalactites
Le trombone, d’une superbe tessiture, est un instrument difficile à manipuler dans ses extrémités graves ou aiguës ainsi que dans les tempos rapides, et malgré quelques solistes hors pair, il restera toujours, pour des raisons techniques, à la lisière du succès populaire que rencontreront les deux héros du bop : la trompette et le sax.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rtombone
- tormbone
- trmobone
- trobmone
- trombbone
- trombnoe
- tromboen
- trombonne
- trommbone
- tromobne
- trrombone
- ttrombone
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of trombone - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).