comme du beurre dans la poêle
The verdict
“comme du beurre dans la poêle” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 29
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Très vite et facilement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-comme-du-beurre-dans-la- · comme du beurre dans la poêle · French
comme du beurre dans la poêle · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 29 letters
- VOW-11 11 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| 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) |
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Rare enough to double-check
comme du beurre dans la poêle is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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
- 1Très vite et facilement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how comme du beurre dans la poêle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je lui ai montré les plans et le projet est passé comme du beurre dans la poêle.
J’ai passé 3 hres avec mon ami Ça passé comme du beurre dans la poêle
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.