comme ça
Letters
8 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
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comme ça is anFrenchadv. It means: De cette façon, de cette manière ; comme cela. Pronounced \kɔm sa\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | comme ça |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adv |
| IPA | \kɔm sa\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for comme ça is 8 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔm sa\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for comme ça in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is comme ça, spelled C-O-M-M-E- -Ç-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1De cette façon, de cette manière ; comme cela.
- 2Sans raison, sans explication.
- 3Qualifie une chose ou une action sans importance, qui ne prête pas à conséquence.
- 4Particulièrement remarquable.
- 5La situation est ainsi et on n’a pas le choix.
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