à bras ouverts

/\a bʁa.z‿u.vɛʁ\/ adv

Letters

14 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

à bras ouverts is anFrenchadv. It means: Avec empressement, avec cordialité, avec enthousiasme, en parlant de recevoir, d’accueillir. Pronounced \a bʁa.z‿u.vɛʁ\.

Key facts for à bras ouverts
PropertyValue
Headwordà bras ouverts
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
IPA\a bʁa.z‿u.vɛʁ\
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

à bras ouverts is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for à bras ouverts is 14 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a bʁa.z‿u.vɛʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for à bras ouverts in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 à bras ouverts, spelled À- -B-R-A-S- -O-U-V-E-R-T-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Avec empressement, avec cordialité, avec enthousiasme, en parlant de recevoir, d’accueillir.
  2. 2
    Avec les bras écartés, en signe d’accueil.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "à bras ouverts"?
"à bras ouverts" is spelled À- -B-R-A-S- -O-U-V-E-R-T-S. The IPA pronunciation is \a bʁa.z‿u.vɛʁ\.
What does "à bras ouverts" mean?
As an adv, "à bras ouverts" means: Avec empressement, avec cordialité, avec enthousiasme, en parlant de recevoir, d’accueillir.
How do you pronounce "à bras ouverts"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "à bras ouverts" is \a bʁa.z‿u.vɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "à bras ouverts" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.