comme un couteau dans du beurre

/\kɔ.m‿œ̃ ku.to dɑ̃ dy bœʁ\/ adv

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French

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comme un couteau dans du beurre is anFrenchadv. It means: Très facilement. Pronounced \kɔ.m‿œ̃ ku.to dɑ̃ dy bœʁ\.

Key facts for comme un couteau dans du beurre
PropertyValue
Headwordcomme un couteau dans du beurre
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
IPA\kɔ.m‿œ̃ ku.to dɑ̃ dy bœʁ\
Letters31
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

comme un couteau dans du beurre is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for comme un couteau dans du beurre is 31 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.m‿œ̃ ku.to dɑ̃ dy bœʁ\. 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 facilement.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for comme un couteau dans du beurre in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 couteau dans du beurre, spelled C-O-M-M-E- -U-N- -C-O-U-T-E-A-U- -D-A-N-S- -D-U- -B-E-U-R-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    Très facilement.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "comme un couteau dans du beurre"?
"comme un couteau dans du beurre" is spelled C-O-M-M-E- -U-N- -C-O-U-T-E-A-U- -D-A-N-S- -D-U- -B-E-U-R-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ.m‿œ̃ ku.to dɑ̃ dy bœʁ\.
What does "comme un couteau dans du beurre" mean?
As an adv, "comme un couteau dans du beurre" means: Très facilement.
How do you pronounce "comme un couteau dans du beurre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "comme un couteau dans du beurre" is \kɔ.m‿œ̃ ku.to dɑ̃ dy bœʁ\. 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. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.