partir en vrille
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16 characters
Language
French
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partir en vrille is aFrenchverb. It means: Être pris, en parlant d’un avion, dans une chute libre tournoyante. Pronounced \paʁ.ti.ʁ‿ɑ̃ vʁij\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | partir en vrille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \paʁ.ti.ʁ‿ɑ̃ vʁij\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for partir en vrille is 16 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \paʁ.ti.ʁ‿ɑ̃ vʁij\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for partir en vrille in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is partir en vrille, spelled P-A-R-T-I-R- -E-N- -V-R-I-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Être pris, en parlant d’un avion, dans une chute libre tournoyante.
- 2Être pris dans une spirale incontrôlable et funeste.
- 3Dégénérer brutalement, parfois sans raison valable.
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