laids comme des chenilles
\lɛ kɔm de ʃə.nij\
The verdict
“laids comme des chenilles” 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
- 25
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Masculin pluriel de laid comme une chenille.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | laids comme des chenilles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \lɛ kɔm de ʃə.nij\ |
| Letters | 25 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “laids comme des chenilles” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for laids comme des chenilles is 25 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lɛ kɔm de ʃə.nij\. 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: "Masculin pluriel de laid comme une chenille.".
No misspelling variants are generated for laids comme des chenilles 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 laids comme des chenilles, spelled L-A-I-D-S- -C-O-M-M-E- -D-E-S- -C-H-E-N-I-L-L-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de laid comme une chenille.
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 L-A-I-D-S- -C-O-M-M-E- -D-E-S- -C-H-E-N-I-L-L-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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