con comme un balai
\kɔ̃ kɔ.m‿œ̃ ba.lɛ\
The verdict
“con comme un balai” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. 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) - Particulièrement stupide, d’une grande bêtise.
Corpus desk
Index FR-con-comme-un-balai · con comme un balai · French
con comme un balai · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 18 letters
- VOW-7 7 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 | con comme un balai |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ̃ kɔ.m‿œ̃ ba.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
con comme un balai is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɔ̃ kɔ.m‿œ̃ ba.lɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Particulièrement stupide, d’une grande bêtise.".
Zero misspellings are on record for con comme un balai in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is con comme un balai, spelled C-O-N- -C-O-M-M-E- -U-N- -B-A-L-A-I.
Definition
- 1Particulièrement stupide, d’une grande bêtise.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how con comme un balai appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle ne faisait que des garçons, et elle en était fière. Elle fournirait au moins un peloton d’exécution à la patrie pour son compte ; il est vrai que la patrie l’avait payé d’avance, elle y avait droit. J’espérais qu’il y aurait une guerre en temps voulu pour utiliser tout ce matériel, qui autrement ne servait pas à grand-chose, car ils étaient tous cons…
Quatre nuques d’hommes d’affaires sous des chapeaux, raides comme la justice et probablement cons comme des balais
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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.