con comme la lune

/\kɔ̃ kɔm la lyn\/ adj

Letters

17 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

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con comme la lune is anFrenchadj. It means: Stupide, d’une grande bêtise. Pronounced \kɔ̃ kɔm la lyn\.

Key facts for con comme la lune
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Headwordcon comme la lune
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\kɔ̃ kɔm la lyn\
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

con comme la lune 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 con comme la lune is 17 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃ kɔm la lyn\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for con comme la lune 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 con comme la lune, spelled C-O-N- -C-O-M-M-E- -L-A- -L-U-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Stupide, d’une grande bêtise.
  2. 2
    Extrêmement simple.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "con comme la lune"?
"con comme la lune" is spelled C-O-N- -C-O-M-M-E- -L-A- -L-U-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃ kɔm la lyn\.
What does "con comme la lune" mean?
As an adj, "con comme la lune" means: Stupide, d’une grande bêtise.
How do you pronounce "con comme la lune"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "con comme la lune" is \kɔ̃ kɔm la lyn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "con comme la lune" come from?
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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.