brûler les ponts
\bʁy.le le pɔ̃\
The verdict
“brûler les ponts” 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
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - S’engager dans une affaire, dans une entreprise, de manière à s’ôter tout moyen d’y renoncer ou de s’en désister.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brûler les ponts |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bʁy.le le pɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “brûler les ponts” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for brûler les ponts is 16 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bʁy.le le pɔ̃\. 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: "S’engager dans une affaire, dans une entreprise, de manière à s’ôter tout moyen d’y renoncer ou de s’en désister.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for brûler les ponts in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, 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. The correct French form is brûler les ponts, spelled B-R-Û-L-E-R- -L-E-S- -P-O-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1S’engager dans une affaire, dans une entreprise, de manière à s’ôter tout moyen d’y renoncer ou de s’en désister.
Synonyms
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 “brûler les ponts”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-R-Û-L-E-R- -L-E-S- -P-O-N-T-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \bʁy.le le pɔ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.