ne pas baisser les bras
\nə pa bɛ.se le bʁɑ\
The verdict
“ne pas baisser les bras” 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
- 23
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ne pas renoncer à agir ; ne pas se décourager face aux difficultés.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ne pas baisser les bras |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \nə pa bɛ.se le bʁɑ\ |
| Letters | 23 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ne pas baisser les bras” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ne pas baisser les bras is 23 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nə pa bɛ.se le bʁɑ\. 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: "Ne pas renoncer à agir ; ne pas se décourager face aux difficultés.".
ne pas baisser les bras has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 ne pas baisser les bras, spelled N-E- -P-A-S- -B-A-I-S-S-E-R- -L-E-S- -B-R-A-S.
Definition
- 1Ne pas renoncer à agir ; ne pas se décourager face aux difficultés.
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.
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Using “ne pas baisser les bras”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is N-E- -P-A-S- -B-A-I-S-S-E-R- -L-E-S- -B-R-A-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \nə pa bɛ.se le bʁɑ\ (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.