comme les deux doigts de la main
\kɔm lɛ dø dwa də la mɛ̃\
The verdict
“comme les deux doigts de la main” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 32
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Se dit de deux personnes extrêmement unies.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | comme les deux doigts de la main |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔm lɛ dø dwa də la mɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 32 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “comme les deux doigts de la main” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
comme les deux doigts de la main is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɔm lɛ dø dwa də la mɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Se dit de deux personnes extrêmement unies.".
No misspelling variants are generated for comme les deux doigts de la main in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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 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.
Definition
- 1Se dit de deux personnes extrêmement unies.
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.
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- The one correct French spelling is 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 - 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.