à bride abattue
\a bʁi.d‿a.ba.ty\
The verdict
“à bride abattue” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chevaucher très vite, sur une longue distance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-a-bride-abattue · à bride abattue · French
à bride abattue · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-7 7 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 bride abattue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \a bʁi.d‿a.ba.ty\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « à bride abattue » en français
Rare enough to double-check
à bride abattue is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb, transcribed \a bʁi.d‿a.ba.ty\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
à bride abattue has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is à bride abattue, spelled À- -B-R-I-D-E- -A-B-A-T-T-U-E.
Definition
- 1Chevaucher très vite, sur une longue distance.
- 2En allant très vite, en forçant l’allure.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how à bride abattue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand les manœuvres furent terminées, l'officier d'ordonnance accourut à bride abattue, et s'arrêta devant l'empereur pour en attendre les ordres.
Le cavalier n’était pas Ouroz… Rien qu’un porteur de message. Il appartenait à un parent d’Osman Bay et accourait à bride abattue pour dire que son maître, terrassé par une fièvre maligne au dernier instant, suppliait de pardonner son absence.
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.