comme la flèche
\kɔm la flɛʃ\
The verdict
“comme la flèche” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - À toute vitesse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-comme-la-fleche · comme la flèche · French
comme la flèche · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 la flèche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \kɔm la flɛʃ\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
comme la flèche is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb, transcribed \kɔm la flɛʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "À toute vitesse.".
Zero misspellings are on record for comme la flèche in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is comme la flèche, spelled C-O-M-M-E- -L-A- -F-L-È-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1À toute vitesse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how comme la flèche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il serra les genoux et lâcha les guides à son cheval qui partit comme la flèche.
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.