se péter les bretelles
\sə pe.te lɛ bʁə.tɛl\
The verdict
“se péter 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) - Être fier de soi.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | se péter les bretelles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sə pe.te lɛ bʁə.tɛl\ |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “se péter les bretelles” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for se péter les bretelles is 22 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sə pe.te lɛ bʁə.tɛl\. 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.
Zero misspellings are on record for se péter les bretelles in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is se péter les bretelles, spelled S-E- -P-É-T-E-R- -L-E-S- -B-R-E-T-E-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Être fier de soi.
- 2Se vanter.
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 “se péter les bretelles”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-E- -P-É-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.