con comme un balai sans manche

/\kɔ̃ kɔ.m‿œ̃ ba.lɛ̃ sɑ̃ mɑ̃ʃ\/ adj

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30 characters

Language

French

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con comme un balai sans manche is anFrenchadj. It means: Stupide au plus haut point. Pronounced \kɔ̃ kɔ.m‿œ̃ ba.lɛ̃ sɑ̃ mɑ̃ʃ\.

Key facts for con comme un balai sans manche
PropertyValue
Headwordcon comme un balai sans manche
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\kɔ̃ kɔ.m‿œ̃ ba.lɛ̃ sɑ̃ mɑ̃ʃ\
Letters30
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

con comme un balai sans manche 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 un balai sans manche is 30 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃ kɔ.m‿œ̃ ba.lɛ̃ sɑ̃ mɑ̃ʃ\. 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: "Stupide au plus haut point.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for con comme un balai sans manche 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 un balai sans manche, spelled C-O-N- -C-O-M-M-E- -U-N- -B-A-L-A-I- -S-A-N-S- -M-A-N-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Stupide au plus haut point.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "con comme un balai sans manche"?
"con comme un balai sans manche" is spelled C-O-N- -C-O-M-M-E- -U-N- -B-A-L-A-I- -S-A-N-S- -M-A-N-C-H-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃ kɔ.m‿œ̃ ba.lɛ̃ sɑ̃ mɑ̃ʃ\.
What does "con comme un balai sans manche" mean?
As an adj, "con comme un balai sans manche" means: Stupide au plus haut point.
How do you pronounce "con comme un balai sans manche"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "con comme un balai sans manche" is \kɔ̃ kɔ.m‿œ̃ ba.lɛ̃ sɑ̃ mɑ̃ʃ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "con comme un balai sans manche" 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.