dépasser les bornes
\de.pa.se le bɔʁn\
The verdict
“dépasser les bornes” 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) - Aller trop loin dans ses réactions, aller au-delà du raisonnable, en faire trop.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dépasser les bornes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.pa.se le bɔʁn\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dépasser les bornes” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for dépasser les bornes is 19 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.pa.se le bɔʁn\. 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: "Aller trop loin dans ses réactions, aller au-delà du raisonnable, en faire trop.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for dépasser les bornes in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is dépasser les bornes, spelled D-É-P-A-S-S-E-R- -L-E-S- -B-O-R-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Aller trop loin dans ses réactions, aller au-delà du raisonnable, en faire trop.
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 “dépasser les bornes”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-É-P-A-S-S-E-R- -L-E-S- -B-O-R-N-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \de.pa.se le bɔʁn\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.