comme ci comme ça
"comme-ci-comme-ca" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“comme ci comme ça” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as an adjective - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Neither good nor bad; so so; tolerable, passable, indifferent.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | comme ci comme ça |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “comme ci comme ça” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for comme ci comme ça is 17 letters long, classified as an adjective. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Neither good nor bad; so so; tolerable, passable, indifferent.".
comme ci comme ça has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French comme ci comme ça (literally “like this like that”). The correct English form is comme ci comme ça, spelled C-O-M-M-E- -C-I- -C-O-M-M-E- -Ç-A.
Definition
- 1Neither good nor bad; so so; tolerable, passable, indifferent.
Etymology
Borrowed from French comme ci comme ça (literally “like this like that”).
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “comme ci comme ça”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-O-M-M-E- -C-I- -C-O-M-M-E- -Ç-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.