partir en brioche
\paʁ.ti.ʁ‿ɑ̃ bʁi.jɔʃ\
The verdict
“partir en brioche” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prendre une mauvaise tournure, se dégrader.
Corpus desk
Index FR-partir-en-brioche · partir en brioche · French
partir en brioche · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" 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 | partir en brioche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \paʁ.ti.ʁ‿ɑ̃ bʁi.jɔʃ\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « partir en brioche » en français
Rare enough to double-check
partir en brioche is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \paʁ.ti.ʁ‿ɑ̃ bʁi.jɔʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prendre une mauvaise tournure, se dégrader.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for partir en brioche, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 partir en brioche, spelled P-A-R-T-I-R- -E-N- -B-R-I-O-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Prendre une mauvaise tournure, se dégrader.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how partir en brioche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La pensée va trop vite. Et les phrases se construisent de façon trop laborieuse. La qualité de la pensée part en brioche, elle s’émiette, elle s’effrite.
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.