burn-out
\bœʁ.na.ut\
The verdict
“burn-out” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Syndrome d’épuisement physique, émotionnel et mental lié à un stress professionnel chronique, se manifestant par une fatigue intense, un détachement vis-à-vis du travail et une baisse d’efficacité.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | burn-out |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bœʁ.na.ut\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “burn-out” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for burn-out is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bœʁ.na.ut\. 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: "Syndrome d’épuisement physique, émotionnel et mental lié à un stress professionnel chronique, se manifestant par une fatigue intense, un détachement vis-à-vis du travail et une baisse d’efficacité.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for burn-out, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 burn-out, spelled B-U-R-N---O-U-T.
Definition
- 1Syndrome d’épuisement physique, émotionnel et mental lié à un stress professionnel chronique, se manifestant par une fatigue intense, un détachement vis-à-vis du travail et une baisse d’efficacité.
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 “burn-out”
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- The one correct French spelling is B-U-R-N---O-U-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.