rester les bras ballants
\ʁɛs.te le bʁa ba.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“rester les bras ballants” 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
- 24
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ne rien faire.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rester les bras ballants |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁɛs.te le bʁa ba.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 24 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “rester les bras ballants” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for rester les bras ballants is 24 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁɛs.te le bʁa ba.lɑ̃\. 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: "Ne rien faire.".
No misspelling variants are generated for rester les bras ballants in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 rester les bras ballants, spelled R-E-S-T-E-R- -L-E-S- -B-R-A-S- -B-A-L-L-A-N-T-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ne rien faire.
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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- The one correct French spelling is R-E-S-T-E-R- -L-E-S- -B-R-A-S- -B-A-L-L-A-N-T-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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