comme un poisson dans l’eau

/\kɔ.m‿œ̃ pwa.sɔ̃ dɑ̃ l‿o\/ adj

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Language

French

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comme un poisson dans l’eau is anFrenchadj. It means: Particulièrement à l’aise (dans un environnement donné). Pronounced \kɔ.m‿œ̃ pwa.sɔ̃ dɑ̃ l‿o\.

Key facts for comme un poisson dans l’eau
PropertyValue
Headwordcomme un poisson dans l’eau
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\kɔ.m‿œ̃ pwa.sɔ̃ dɑ̃ l‿o\
Letters27
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

comme un poisson dans l’eau 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 poisson dans l’eau is 27 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.m‿œ̃ pwa.sɔ̃ dɑ̃ l‿o\. 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: "Particulièrement à l’aise (dans un environnement donné).".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for comme un poisson dans l’eau 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 poisson dans l’eau, spelled C-O-M-M-E- -U-N- -P-O-I-S-S-O-N- -D-A-N-S- -L-’-E-A-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Particulièrement à l’aise (dans un environnement donné).

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "comme un poisson dans l’eau"?
"comme un poisson dans l’eau" is spelled C-O-M-M-E- -U-N- -P-O-I-S-S-O-N- -D-A-N-S- -L-’-E-A-U. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ.m‿œ̃ pwa.sɔ̃ dɑ̃ l‿o\.
What does "comme un poisson dans l’eau" mean?
As an adj, "comme un poisson dans l’eau" means: Particulièrement à l’aise (dans un environnement donné).
How do you pronounce "comme un poisson dans l’eau"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "comme un poisson dans l’eau" is \kɔ.m‿œ̃ pwa.sɔ̃ dɑ̃ l‿o\. 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.