con comme un manche
\kɔ̃ kɔ.m‿œ̃ mɑ̃ʃ\
The verdict
“con comme un manche” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adjective - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Complètement idiot (en parlant d’une personne).
| 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) |
Where “con comme un manche” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for con comme un manche is 19 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃ kɔ.m‿œ̃ 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: "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).
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.
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Using “con comme un manche”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-O-N- -C-O-M-M-E- -U-N- -M-A-N-C-H-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.