comme du beurre dans la poêle

Name: comme du beurre dans la poêle, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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By PlainSpell Editorial Team · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed May 6, 2026

The verdict

“comme du beurre dans la poêle” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adverb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency French: 29
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Très vite et facilement.

Key facts for comme du beurre dans la poêle
Property	Value
Headword	comme du beurre dans la poêle
Language	French
Part of speech	Adverb
Letters	29
Misspellings tracked	0
Confusable pairs	0
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “comme du beurre dans la poêle” sits in French frequency

comme du beurre dans la poêle falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for comme du beurre dans la poêle is 29 letters long, classified as an adverb. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Très vite et facilement.".

Zero misspellings are on record for comme du beurre dans la poêle in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is comme du beurre dans la poêle, spelled C-O-M-M-E- -D-U- -B-E-U-R-R-E- -D-A-N-S- -L-A- -P-O-Ê-L-E.

Definition

1
Très vite et facilement.

Synonyms

comme une lettre à la poste comme dans du beurre

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "comme du beurre dans la poêle"?

"comme du beurre dans la poêle" is spelled C-O-M-M-E- -D-U- -B-E-U-R-R-E- -D-A-N-S- -L-A- -P-O-Ê-L-E.

What does "comme du beurre dans la poêle" mean?

As an adverb, "comme du beurre dans la poêle" means: Très vite et facilement.

What language does "comme du beurre dans la poêle" come from?

"comme du beurre dans la poêle" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.

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Using “comme du beurre dans la poêle”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

The one correct French spelling is C-O-M-M-E- -D-U- -B-E-U-R-R-E- -D-A-N-S- -L-A- -P-O-Ê-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.