comme par enchantement
\kɔm pa.ʁ‿ɑ̃.ʃɑ̃t.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“comme par enchantement” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adverb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 22
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Se dit pour exprimer qu’une chose s’est faite avec une promptitude et une facilité à quoi on ne s’attendait pas.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | comme par enchantement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \kɔm pa.ʁ‿ɑ̃.ʃɑ̃t.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “comme par enchantement” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for comme par enchantement is 22 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔm pa.ʁ‿ɑ̃.ʃɑ̃t.mɑ̃\. 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 pour exprimer qu’une chose s’est faite avec une promptitude et une facilité à quoi on ne s’attendait pas.".
No misspelling variants are generated for comme par enchantement 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 par enchantement, spelled C-O-M-M-E- -P-A-R- -E-N-C-H-A-N-T-E-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Se dit pour exprimer qu’une chose s’est faite avec une promptitude et une facilité à quoi on ne s’attendait pas.
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- The one correct French spelling is C-O-M-M-E- -P-A-R- -E-N-C-H-A-N-T-E-M-E-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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