quelque chose comme ça
The verdict
“quelque chose comme ça” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a pronoun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 22
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Objet, chose, mot… indéfini, mais qui évoque ce dont on vient de parler.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quelque chose comme ça |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | \kɛl.kə ʃoz kɔm sa\ |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “quelque chose comme ça” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for quelque chose comme ça is 22 letters long, classified as a pronoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɛl.kə ʃoz kɔm sa\. 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: "Objet, chose, mot… indéfini, mais qui évoque ce dont on vient de parler.".
No misspelling variants are generated for quelque chose comme ça 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 quelque chose comme ça, spelled Q-U-E-L-Q-U-E- -C-H-O-S-E- -C-O-M-M-E- -Ç-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Objet, chose, mot… indéfini, mais qui évoque ce dont on vient de parler.
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 “quelque chose comme ça”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is Q-U-E-L-Q-U-E- -C-H-O-S-E- -C-O-M-M-E- -Ç-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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