comme ça

/\kɔm sa\/ adv

Letters

8 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

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similar word pairs

comme ça is anFrenchadv. It means: De cette façon, de cette manière ; comme cela. Pronounced \kɔm sa\.

Key facts for comme ça
PropertyValue
Headwordcomme ça
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
IPA\kɔm sa\
Letters8
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

comme ça is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    De cette façon, de cette manière ; comme cela.
  2. 2
    Sans raison, sans explication.
  3. 3
    Qualifie une chose ou une action sans importance, qui ne prête pas à conséquence.
  4. 4
    Particulièrement remarquable.
  5. 5
    La situation est ainsi et on n’a pas le choix.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "comme ça"?
"comme ça" is spelled C-O-M-M-E- -Ç-A. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔm sa\.
What does "comme ça" mean?
As an adv, "comme ça" means: De cette façon, de cette manière ; comme cela.
How do you pronounce "comme ça"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "comme ça" is \kɔm sa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "comme ça" come from?
"comme ça" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.