briser les couilles
\bʁi.ze le kuj\
The verdict
“briser les couilles” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Importuner quelqu'un, exaspérer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-briser-les-couilles · briser les couilles · French
briser les couilles · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 19 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| 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) |
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Rare enough to double-check
briser les couilles is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \bʁi.ze le kuj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how briser les couilles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
No problem ça me brisait les couilles de voir des boulets dire n'importe quoi...
Je ne suis que paix et amout' normalement, je ne sais pas comment tu fais pour réussir à me briser les couilles à chacun de tes posts.
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.