comme il faut
Letters
13 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
comme il faut is anFrenchadv. It means: De la manière dont il convient que les choses soient faites, correctement, normalement, régulièrement, proprement, avec soin, en prenant garde. Pronounced \kɔ.m‿il.fo\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | comme il faut |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adv |
| IPA | \kɔ.m‿il.fo\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for comme il faut is 13 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.m‿il.fo\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for comme il faut in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.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 il faut, spelled C-O-M-M-E- -I-L- -F-A-U-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1De la manière dont il convient que les choses soient faites, correctement, normalement, régulièrement, proprement, avec soin, en prenant garde.
- 2Complètement, franchement, voire en excès.
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