con comme un manche
\kɔ̃ kɔ.m‿œ̃ mɑ̃ʃ\
The verdict
“con comme un manche” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Complètement idiot (en parlant d’une personne).
Corpus desk
Index FR-con-comme-un-manche · con comme un manche · French
con comme un manche · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 19 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 | con comme un manche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ̃ kɔ.m‿œ̃ mɑ̃ʃ\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « con comme un manche » en français
Rare enough to double-check
con comme un manche is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɔ̃ kɔ.m‿œ̃ mɑ̃ʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Complètement idiot (en parlant d’une personne).".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for con comme un manche, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is con comme un manche, spelled C-O-N- -C-O-M-M-E- -U-N- -M-A-N-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Complètement idiot (en parlant d’une personne).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how con comme un manche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je leur adjoins le père de Manolito qui mérite bien son nom, Innocente ; con comme un manche, il ne ferait pas de mal à une mouche.
Il a fixé le portemanteau à l’envers et il ne s’en est même pas aperçu, il est vraiment con comme un manche celui-là !
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.