partir en vrille

/\paʁ.ti.ʁ‿ɑ̃ vʁij\/ verb

Letters

16 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

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similar word pairs

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\.

Key facts for partir en vrille
PropertyValue
Headwordpartir en vrille
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\paʁ.ti.ʁ‿ɑ̃ vʁij\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

partir en vrille is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

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

  1. 1
    Être pris, en parlant d’un avion, dans une chute libre tournoyante.
  2. 2
    Être pris dans une spirale incontrôlable et funeste.
  3. 3
    Dégénérer brutalement, parfois sans raison valable.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "partir en vrille"?
"partir en vrille" is spelled P-A-R-T-I-R- -E-N- -V-R-I-L-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \paʁ.ti.ʁ‿ɑ̃ vʁij\.
What does "partir en vrille" mean?
As a verb, "partir en vrille" means: Être pris, en parlant d’un avion, dans une chute libre tournoyante.
How do you pronounce "partir en vrille"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "partir en vrille" is \paʁ.ti.ʁ‿ɑ̃ vʁij\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "partir en vrille" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.