rester les bras croisés
\ʁɛs.te le bʁa kʁwa.ze\
The verdict
“rester les bras croisés” 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
- 23
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Rester inactif ou immobile.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rester les bras croisés |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁɛs.te le bʁa kʁwa.ze\ |
| Letters | 23 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “rester les bras croisés” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for rester les bras croisés is 23 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁɛs.te le bʁa kʁwa.ze\. 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: "Rester inactif ou immobile.".
No misspelling variants are generated for rester les bras croisés 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 croisés, spelled R-E-S-T-E-R- -L-E-S- -B-R-A-S- -C-R-O-I-S-É-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Rester inactif ou immobile.
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- The one correct French spelling is R-E-S-T-E-R- -L-E-S- -B-R-A-S- -C-R-O-I-S-É-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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