laid comme le péché
\lɛ kɔm lə pe.ʃe\
The verdict
“laid comme le péché” 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) — Très laid, repoussant.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | laid comme le péché |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \lɛ kɔm lə pe.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “laid comme le péché” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for laid comme le péché is 19 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lɛ kɔm lə pe.ʃe\. 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: "Très laid, repoussant.".
No misspelling variants are generated for laid comme le péché 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 laid comme le péché, spelled L-A-I-D- -C-O-M-M-E- -L-E- -P-É-C-H-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Très laid, repoussant.
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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 “laid comme le péché”
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- The one correct French spelling is L-A-I-D- -C-O-M-M-E- -L-E- -P-É-C-H-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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