con comme une valise
\kɔ̃ kɔ.m‿y.nə va.liz\
The verdict
“con comme une valise” 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
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Variante de con comme une valise sans poignée.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | con comme une valise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ̃ kɔ.m‿y.nə va.liz\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “con comme une valise” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for con comme une valise is 20 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃ kɔ.m‿y.nə va.liz\. 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: "Variante de con comme une valise sans poignée.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for con comme une valise, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is con comme une valise, spelled C-O-N- -C-O-M-M-E- -U-N-E- -V-A-L-I-S-E.
Definition
- 1Variante de con comme une valise sans poignée.
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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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-E- -V-A-L-I-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kɔ̃ kɔ.m‿y.nə va.liz\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.