rapide comme l’éclair
\ʁa.pid kɔm le.klɛʁ\
The verdict
“rapide comme l’éclair” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Très prompt, qui va vite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rapide-comme-l-eclair · rapide comme l’éclair · French
rapide comme l’éclair · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 21 letters
- VOW-8 8 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "R" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rapide comme l’éclair |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁa.pid kɔm le.klɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rapide comme l’éclair » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rapide comme l’éclair is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʁa.pid kɔm le.klɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Très prompt, qui va vite.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for rapide comme l’éclair, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is rapide comme l’éclair, spelled R-A-P-I-D-E- -C-O-M-M-E- -L-’-É-C-L-A-I-R.
Definition
- 1Très prompt, qui va vite.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rapide comme l’éclair appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Prenez mon phaéton, qui est léger comme une plume, et mon Morello (cheval noirâtre), qui est rapide comme l’éclair;
This word in other languages
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.