bête comme ses pieds
\bɛt kɔm se pje\
The verdict
“bête comme ses pieds” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Idiot, stupide.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bete-comme-ses-pieds · bête comme ses pieds · French
bête comme ses pieds · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 20 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bête comme ses pieds |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bɛt kɔm se pje\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bête comme ses pieds » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bête comme ses pieds is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \bɛt kɔm se pje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bête comme ses pieds, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 bête comme ses pieds, spelled B-Ê-T-E- -C-O-M-M-E- -S-E-S- -P-I-E-D-S.
Definition
- 1Idiot, stupide.
- 2Qui manque de tact, grossier, brusque.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bête comme ses pieds appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
M. Courtois se fâchait. « Ce tu viens de faire là, grommelait-il, se hasardant, dans sa colère, aux injures à la mode, ce que tu viens de faire là, c'est bête comme tes pieds. » Il ne tarda pas, sans doute par économie, à raccourcir la formule. Il disait : « Encore tes pieds! C'est on ne peut plus tes pieds. »
L’elfe et le nain se haïssent, le voleur est un trouillard, le barbare est bête comme ses pieds, bref, on retrouve tous les clichés d’une aventure de Donjons & Dragons, mais avec une saine dose d’humour.
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.