à bas bruit
\a ba bʁɥi\
The verdict
“à bas bruit” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - De manière cachée ; sans faire de bruit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-a-bas-bruit · à bas bruit · French
à bas bruit · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "À" 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 | à bas bruit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \a ba bʁɥi\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « à bas bruit » en français
Rare enough to double-check
à bas bruit is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb, transcribed \a ba bʁɥi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "De manière cachée ; sans faire de bruit.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for à bas bruit, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is à bas bruit, spelled À- -B-A-S- -B-R-U-I-T.
Definition
- 1De manière cachée ; sans faire de bruit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how à bas bruit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pierre Bourdieu, l’intellectuel critique que les gens connaissaient peu, était mort, nous ne le savions même pas malade. Il ne nous avait pas accordé de délai pour nous retourner, prévoir son absence. Un chagrin bizarre courait à bas bruit parmi ceux qui s’étaient sentis libérés en le lisant.
Résultat : 1,9 million de Français ont aujourd’hui un tel dossier et près de 100 000 s’ouvriraient actuellement « à bas bruit », selon la CNAM, chaque semaine.
Synonyms
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.