tumblr
\təm.blœʁ\
The verdict
“tumblr” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,358. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,358
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Microblogue utilisant la plate-forme de microblogage Tumblr permettant à l'utilisateur de poster du texte, des images, des vidéos, des liens et des sons.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tumblr · tumblr · French
tumblr · rank #18,358 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,358
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH trouverais
Nearest frequency peer: trouverais (-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 « tumblr »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- trompés
trompés
81,646 corpus weight
- tropical
tropical
81,645 corpus weight
- trouverais
trouverais
81,644 corpus weight
- tumblr
tumblr
81,643 corpus weight
- vases
vases
81,642 corpus weight
- venin
venin
81,641 corpus weight
What this shows « tumblr » 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 | tumblr |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \təm.blœʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #18,358 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tumblr »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around tumblr (IPA \təm.blœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,358 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Microblogue utilisant la plate-forme de microblogage Tumblr permettant à l'utilisateur de poster du texte, des images, des vidéos, des liens et des sons.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for tumblr, with forms such as "tmublr", "ttumblr", and "tubmlr". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "tumeur", "tomber", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 tumblr, spelled T-U-M-B-L-R.
Definition
- 1Microblogue utilisant la plate-forme de microblogage Tumblr permettant à l'utilisateur de poster du texte, des images, des vidéos, des liens et des sons.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tumblr appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Chaque semaine, retrouvez sur ce tumblr des photos inédites et exclusives du président de la République. Relatives à l’actualité ou plus anciennes, parfois étonnantes, souvent inattendues, elles vous offrent d’autres regards pour entrer dans la vie de l’Elysée. »
L’Elysée lance son tumblr […]
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- tmublr
- ttumblr
- tubmlr
- tumbblr
- tumbllr
- tumblrr
- tumbrl
- tumlbr
- tummblr
- utmblr
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tumblr - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).