muet comme une tombe
\mɥɛ kɔ.m‿yn tɔ̃b\
The verdict
“muet comme une tombe” 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) - Garder obstinément le silence.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | muet comme une tombe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mɥɛ kɔ.m‿yn tɔ̃b\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “muet comme une tombe” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for muet comme une tombe is 20 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɥɛ kɔ.m‿yn tɔ̃b\. 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: "Garder obstinément le silence.".
muet comme une tombe doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is muet comme une tombe, spelled M-U-E-T- -C-O-M-M-E- -U-N-E- -T-O-M-B-E.
Definition
- 1Garder obstinément le silence.
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 “muet comme une tombe”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-U-E-T- -C-O-M-M-E- -U-N-E- -T-O-M-B-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.