ne pas baisser les bras
\nə pa bɛ.se le bʁɑ\
The verdict
“ne pas baisser les bras” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 23
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ne pas renoncer à agir ; ne pas se décourager face aux difficultés.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ne-pas-baisser-les-bras · ne pas baisser les bras · French
ne pas baisser les bras · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 23 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "N" 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 | 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « ne pas baisser les bras » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ne pas baisser les bras is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \nə pa bɛ.se le bʁɑ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ne pas baisser les bras appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’autres les rejoignent, sans savoir ce qui les attend. Et, quand Cabet arrive à son tour, il fonde avec les disciples qui n’ont pas baissé les bras la communauté de Nauvoo, une ville située dans l’Illinois.
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.