rompre les rangs
\ʁɔ̃.pʁə le ʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“rompre les rangs” 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
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ne plus garder les rangs, pour une troupe qui en reçoit l’ordre ou la permission de son chef.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rompre les rangs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁɔ̃.pʁə le ʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “rompre les rangs” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for rompre les rangs is 16 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁɔ̃.pʁə le ʁɑ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for rompre les rangs, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is rompre les rangs, spelled R-O-M-P-R-E- -L-E-S- -R-A-N-G-S.
Definition
- 1Ne plus garder les rangs, pour une troupe qui en reçoit l’ordre ou la permission de son chef.
- 2Quitter un groupe, ou en changer.
This word in other languages
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 practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is R-O-M-P-R-E- -L-E-S- -R-A-N-G-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.