comme cul et chemise
\kɔm ky e ʃə.miz\
The verdict
“comme cul et chemise” 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 May 6, 2026) - Intimement liées, inséparables, en parlant de personnes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | comme cul et chemise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔm ky e ʃə.miz\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “comme cul et chemise” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
comme cul et chemise is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɔm ky e ʃə.miz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Intimement liées, inséparables, en parlant de personnes.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for comme cul et chemise, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 comme cul et chemise, spelled C-O-M-M-E- -C-U-L- -E-T- -C-H-E-M-I-S-E.
Definition
- 1Intimement liées, inséparables, en parlant de personnes.
This word in other languages
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Using “comme cul et chemise”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-O-M-M-E- -C-U-L- -E-T- -C-H-E-M-I-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kɔm ky e ʃə.miz\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.