à jouer avec le feu, on finit par se brûler

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for à jouer avec le feu, on finit par se brûler is 43 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a ʒwe a.vɛk lə fø ɔ̃ fi.ni paʁ sə bʁy.le\. 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: "Quand on prend de gros risques, on finit par en payer le prix.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for à jouer avec le feu, on finit par se brûler 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 jouer avec le feu, on finit par se brûler, spelled À- -J-O-U-E-R- -A-V-E-C- -L-E- -F-E-U-,- -O-N- -F-I-N-I-T- -P-A-R- -S-E- -B-R-Û-L-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.