braç dessús braç dejós
\bɾas de.ˈsys bɾas de.ˈd͡ʒus\
The verdict
“braç dessús braç dejós” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adverb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 22
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Bras dessus, bras dessous, côte à côte, en se donnant le bras
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | braç dessús braç dejós |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \bɾas de.ˈsys bɾas de.ˈd͡ʒus\ |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “braç dessús braç dejós” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for braç dessús braç dejós is 22 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bɾas de.ˈsys bɾas de.ˈd͡ʒus\. 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: "Bras dessus, bras dessous, côte à côte, en se donnant le bras".
No misspelling variants are generated for braç dessús braç dejós in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 braç dessús braç dejós, spelled B-R-A-Ç- -D-E-S-S-Ú-S- -B-R-A-Ç- -D-E-J-Ó-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Bras dessus, bras dessous, côte à côte, en se donnant le bras
Synonyms
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- The one correct French spelling is B-R-A-Ç- -D-E-S-S-Ú-S- -B-R-A-Ç- -D-E-J-Ó-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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