remonter les bretelles
\ʁə.mɔ̃.te le bʁə.tɛl\
The verdict
“remonter les bretelles” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 22
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Faire de violents reproches.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | remonter les bretelles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.mɔ̃.te le bʁə.tɛl\ |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “remonter les bretelles” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for remonter les bretelles is 22 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.mɔ̃.te le bʁə.tɛl\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Faire de violents reproches.".
Zero misspellings are on record for remonter les bretelles in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is remonter les bretelles, spelled R-E-M-O-N-T-E-R- -L-E-S- -B-R-E-T-E-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Faire de violents reproches.
Synonyms
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.
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Using “remonter les bretelles”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is R-E-M-O-N-T-E-R- -L-E-S- -B-R-E-T-E-L-L-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.