écrire comme un chat
\e.kʁiʁ kɔ.m‿œ̃ ʃa\
The verdict
“écrire comme un chat” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - 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) — Écrire de manière illisible, en particulier avec des lettres très petites.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | écrire comme un chat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.kʁiʁ kɔ.m‿œ̃ ʃa\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “écrire comme un chat” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for écrire comme un chat is 20 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.kʁiʁ kɔ.m‿œ̃ ʃa\. 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: "Écrire de manière illisible, en particulier avec des lettres très petites.".
No misspelling variants are generated for écrire comme un chat in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 écrire comme un chat, spelled É-C-R-I-R-E- -C-O-M-M-E- -U-N- -C-H-A-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Écrire de manière illisible, en particulier avec des lettres très petites.
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 one correct French spelling is É-C-R-I-R-E- -C-O-M-M-E- -U-N- -C-H-A-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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