comme un coq en pâte
\kɔ.m‿œ kɔ.k‿ɑ̃ pɑt\
The verdict
“comme un coq en pâte” 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
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Très bien traité, choyé, dorloté.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | comme un coq en pâte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \kɔ.m‿œ kɔ.k‿ɑ̃ pɑt\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “comme un coq en pâte” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for comme un coq en pâte is 20 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.m‿œ kɔ.k‿ɑ̃ pɑt\. 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: "Très bien traité, choyé, dorloté.".
No misspelling variants are generated for comme un coq en pâte 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 un coq en pâte, spelled C-O-M-M-E- -U-N- -C-O-Q- -E-N- -P-Â-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Très bien traité, choyé, dorloté.
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- -U-N- -C-O-Q- -E-N- -P-Â-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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