bête comme un chou
The verdict
“bête comme un chou” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’une grande stupidité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bete-comme-un-chou · bête comme un chou · French
bête comme un chou · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 18 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 un chou |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bête comme un chou » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bête comme un chou is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "D’une grande stupidité.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for bête comme un chou in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 un chou, spelled B-Ê-T-E- -C-O-M-M-E- -U-N- -C-H-O-U.
Definition
- 1D’une grande stupidité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bête comme un chou appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je lui ai expliqué mille fois, le problème est qu’il est bête comme un chou.
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.