briser la glace
The verdict
“briser la glace” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Dénouer une ambiance tendue en lançant une discussion ou une animation collective.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | briser la glace |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bʁi.ze la ɡlas\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “briser la glace” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for briser la glace is 15 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bʁi.ze la ɡlas\. 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: "Dénouer une ambiance tendue en lançant une discussion ou une animation collective.".
No misspelling variants are generated for briser la glace 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 briser la glace, spelled B-R-I-S-E-R- -L-A- -G-L-A-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dénouer une ambiance tendue en lançant une discussion ou une animation collective.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-R-I-S-E-R- -L-A- -G-L-A-C-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \bʁi.ze la ɡlas\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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