brûler ses vaisseaux
\bʁy.le se vɛ.so\
The verdict
“brûler ses vaisseaux” 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
- 20
- 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 ses vaisseaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bʁy.le se vɛ.so\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “brûler ses vaisseaux” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for brûler ses vaisseaux is 20 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bʁy.le se vɛ.so\. 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.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for brûler ses vaisseaux, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is brûler ses vaisseaux, spelled B-R-Û-L-E-R- -S-E-S- -V-A-I-S-S-E-A-U-X.
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 ses vaisseaux”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-R-Û-L-E-R- -S-E-S- -V-A-I-S-S-E-A-U-X - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \bʁy.le se vɛ.so\ (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.