au bord de la crise

/\o bɔʁ də la kʁiz\/ adj

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Language

French

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au bord de la crise is anFrenchadj. It means: Sur le point d’avoir une crise de nerfs, extrêmement énervé, dans un état de nervosité très avancé. Pronounced \o bɔʁ də la kʁiz\.

Key facts for au bord de la crise
PropertyValue
Headwordau bord de la crise
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\o bɔʁ də la kʁiz\
Letters19
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

au bord de la crise 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 au bord de la crise is 19 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \o bɔʁ də la kʁiz\. 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 au bord de la crise 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 au bord de la crise, spelled A-U- -B-O-R-D- -D-E- -L-A- -C-R-I-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Sur le point d’avoir une crise de nerfs, extrêmement énervé, dans un état de nervosité très avancé.
  2. 2
    Expression que l’on emploie pour dire qu’on en a vraiment assez de quelque chose, d’une situation.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "au bord de la crise"?
"au bord de la crise" is spelled A-U- -B-O-R-D- -D-E- -L-A- -C-R-I-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \o bɔʁ də la kʁiz\.
What does "au bord de la crise" mean?
As an adj, "au bord de la crise" means: Sur le point d’avoir une crise de nerfs, extrêmement énervé, dans un état de nervosité très avancé.
How do you pronounce "au bord de la crise"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "au bord de la crise" is \o bɔʁ də la kʁiz\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "au bord de la crise" 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.