franchir le pas
\fʁɑ̃.ʃiʁ lə pa\
The verdict
“franchir le pas” 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
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Se décider à faire une chose, après avoir longtemps hésité.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | franchir le pas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fʁɑ̃.ʃiʁ lə pa\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “franchir le pas” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for franchir le pas is 15 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fʁɑ̃.ʃiʁ lə pa\. 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: "Se décider à faire une chose, après avoir longtemps hésité.".
Zero misspellings are on record for franchir le pas in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is franchir le pas, spelled F-R-A-N-C-H-I-R- -L-E- -P-A-S.
Definition
- 1Se décider à faire une chose, après avoir longtemps hésité.
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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 “franchir le pas”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is F-R-A-N-C-H-I-R- -L-E- -P-A-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \fʁɑ̃.ʃiʁ lə pa\ (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.