briser les couilles
\bʁi.ze le kuj\
The verdict
“briser les couilles” 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
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Importuner quelqu'un, exaspérer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | briser les couilles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bʁi.ze le kuj\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “briser les couilles” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for briser les couilles is 19 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bʁi.ze le kuj\. 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: "Importuner quelqu'un, exaspérer.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for briser les couilles, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is briser les couilles, spelled B-R-I-S-E-R- -L-E-S- -C-O-U-I-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Importuner quelqu'un, exaspérer.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “briser les couilles”
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-E-S- -C-O-U-I-L-L-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \bʁi.ze le kuj\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.