laisser la bride sur le cou
\lɛ.se la bʁid syʁ lə ku\
The verdict
“laisser la bride sur le cou” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 27
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Donner plus de liberté.
Corpus desk
Index FR-laisser-la-bride-sur-le- · laisser la bride sur le cou · French
laisser la bride sur le cou · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 27 letters
- VOW-10 10 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "L" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | laisser la bride sur le cou |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \lɛ.se la bʁid syʁ lə ku\ |
| Letters | 27 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « laisser la bride sur le cou » en français
Rare enough to double-check
laisser la bride sur le cou is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \lɛ.se la bʁid syʁ lə ku\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Donner plus de liberté.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for laisser la bride sur le cou in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 laisser la bride sur le cou, spelled L-A-I-S-S-E-R- -L-A- -B-R-I-D-E- -S-U-R- -L-E- -C-O-U.
Definition
- 1Donner plus de liberté.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how laisser la bride sur le cou appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il n’aimait ni les discussions ni les soucis et laissait à ses enfants la bride sur le cou.
Si on lui laissait la bride sur le cou, dans huit jours il voudrait en remontrer à Visseaux et, dans un mois, s’asseoir dans le fauteuil directorial.
Antonyms
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.