Which to use
“tomate” and “tombée” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #10,421
- “tomate” frequency rank
- #4,292
- “tombée” frequency rank
- 14713
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | tomate | tombée |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Plante herbacée annuelle dicotylédone, de la famille des Solanacées, originaire d’Amérique du Sud, cultivée pour ses fruits. | Chute, mouvement de ce qui tombe, au propre ou au figuré, ou survenue d'un évènement. |
Where the eye mixes tomate and tombée
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence.
Look-alike desk: tomate vs tombée
A purely visual mix-up. tomate (\tɔ.mat\) and tombée (\tɔ̃.be\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 14713, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
tomate is recorded at frequency rank #10,421, classified as anoun, pronounced \tɔ.mat\. tombée is at rank #4,292, tagged as anoun, pronounced \tɔ̃.be\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 14713, this pair ranks #395,510 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of tomate vs tombée
Shared letters: emot. Private to "tomate": a. Private to "tombée": bé.
"tomate" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV · "tombée" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVV
Known mistypes of this pair
- tomate ← otmate · tmoate · toamte · tomaet · tomatte · tommate · tomtae · ttomate
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "tomate" and "tombée" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "tomate" or "tombée" show up more?
Useful next steps
Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.
- Full dictionary entry for "tomate" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "tombée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #395,510 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "tomate" and "tombée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "tomate vs tourte". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #395,510 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.