comment allez-vous
\kɔ.mɑ̃.t‿a.le.vu\
The verdict
“comment allez-vous” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a phrase. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Salutation interrogative pour demander si la personne va bien ou mal à l’adresse d’une personne que l’on vouvoie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-comment-allez-vous · comment allez-vous · French
comment allez-vous · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 18 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | comment allez-vous |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \kɔ.mɑ̃.t‿a.le.vu\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « comment allez-vous » en français
Rare enough to double-check
comment allez-vous is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as aphrase, transcribed \kɔ.mɑ̃.t‿a.le.vu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Salutation interrogative pour demander si la personne va bien ou mal à l’adresse d’une personne que l’on vouvoie.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for comment allez-vous, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 comment allez-vous, spelled C-O-M-M-E-N-T- -A-L-L-E-Z---V-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1Salutation interrogative pour demander si la personne va bien ou mal à l’adresse d’une personne que l’on vouvoie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how comment allez-vous appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comment allez-vous ? — Je vais bien, et vous ?
This word in other languages
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.