comme les deux doigts de la main

/\kɔm lɛ dø dwa də la mɛ̃\/ adj

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32 characters

Language

French

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comme les deux doigts de la main is anFrenchadj. It means: Se dit de deux personnes extrêmement unies. Pronounced \kɔm lɛ dø dwa də la mɛ̃\.

Key facts for comme les deux doigts de la main
PropertyValue
Headwordcomme les deux doigts de la main
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\kɔm lɛ dø dwa də la mɛ̃\
Letters32
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

comme les deux doigts de la main is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for comme les deux doigts de la main is 32 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔm lɛ dø dwa də la mɛ̃\. 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: "Se dit de deux personnes extrêmement unies.".

No misspelling variants are generated for comme les deux doigts de la main 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 les deux doigts de la main, spelled C-O-M-M-E- -L-E-S- -D-E-U-X- -D-O-I-G-T-S- -D-E- -L-A- -M-A-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Se dit de deux personnes extrêmement unies.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "comme les deux doigts de la main"?
"comme les deux doigts de la main" is spelled C-O-M-M-E- -L-E-S- -D-E-U-X- -D-O-I-G-T-S- -D-E- -L-A- -M-A-I-N. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔm lɛ dø dwa də la mɛ̃\.
What does "comme les deux doigts de la main" mean?
As an adj, "comme les deux doigts de la main" means: Se dit de deux personnes extrêmement unies.
How do you pronounce "comme les deux doigts de la main"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "comme les deux doigts de la main" is \kɔm lɛ dø dwa də la mɛ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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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.