bras de fer
Letters
11 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
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bras de fer is aFrenchnoun. It means: Jeu sportif entre deux personnes qui empoignent chacun le poignet de l’autre et forcent chacun vers la main non utilisée pour lui faire toucher la table. Pronounced \bʁa də fɛʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bras de fer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁa də fɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for bras de fer is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bʁa də fɛʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for bras de fer 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 bras de fer, spelled B-R-A-S- -D-E- -F-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Jeu sportif entre deux personnes qui empoignent chacun le poignet de l’autre et forcent chacun vers la main non utilisée pour lui faire toucher la table.
- 2Duel.
- 3Conflit entre deux parties.
- 4Tactique d’intimidation qui vise à faire céder l’adversaire en lui laissant croire qu’il se heurte à une détermination infaillible.
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