perdre la raison
\pɛʁ.dʁə la ʁɛ.zɔ̃\
The verdict
“perdre la raison” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tomber en démence ; devenir fou en un court intervalle de temps et pour une raison précise.
Corpus desk
Index FR-perdre-la-raison · perdre la raison · French
perdre la raison · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 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 | perdre la raison |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.dʁə la ʁɛ.zɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
perdre la raison is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \pɛʁ.dʁə la ʁɛ.zɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
perdre la raison doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is perdre la raison, spelled P-E-R-D-R-E- -L-A- -R-A-I-S-O-N.
Definition
- 1Tomber en démence ; devenir fou en un court intervalle de temps et pour une raison précise.
- 2Faire une chose contraire à la raison ou au bon sens.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how perdre la raison appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Vous m’aimez, vous ? s’écria-t-il. Oh ! si cela était, ce serait à en perdre la raison !
Celui qui réagissait le plus mal était de loin Jasper Fant ; il était si choqué que pendant quelque temps Call crut qu’il allait perdre la raison.
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.