comme chien et chat
\kɔm ʃjɛ̃ e ʃa\
The verdict
“comme chien et chat” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Se dit de deux personnes qui sont en conflit perpétuel, qui se cherchent querelle pour tout motif. — Note d’usage : La locution est utilisée avec des verbes comme être, s’entendre, s’accorder, s’ai...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | comme chien et chat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \kɔm ʃjɛ̃ e ʃa\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “comme chien et chat” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
comme chien et chat is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb, transcribed \kɔm ʃjɛ̃ e ʃa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Se dit de deux personnes qui sont en conflit perpétuel, qui se cherchent querelle pour tout motif. — Note d’usage : La locution est utilisée avec des verbes comme être, s’entendre, s’accorder, s’ai...".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for comme chien et chat, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is comme chien et chat, spelled C-O-M-M-E- -C-H-I-E-N- -E-T- -C-H-A-T.
Definition
- 1Se dit de deux personnes qui sont en conflit perpétuel, qui se cherchent querelle pour tout motif. — Note d’usage : La locution est utilisée avec des verbes comme être, s’entendre, s’accorder, s’aimer, vivre.
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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 chien et chat”
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- The one correct French spelling is C-O-M-M-E- -C-H-I-E-N- -E-T- -C-H-A-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kɔm ʃjɛ̃ e ʃa\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.