au bord de la crise
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19 characters
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\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | au bord de la crise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \o bɔʁ də la kʁiz\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1Sur le point d’avoir une crise de nerfs, extrêmement énervé, dans un état de nervosité très avancé.
- 2Expression que l’on emploie pour dire qu’on en a vraiment assez de quelque chose, d’une situation.
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