serrer les boulons
\sɛ.ʁe le bu.lɔ̃\
The verdict
“serrer les boulons” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Réduire le budget.
Corpus desk
Index FR-serrer-les-boulons · serrer les boulons · French
serrer les boulons · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 18 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | serrer les boulons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sɛ.ʁe le bu.lɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « serrer les boulons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
serrer les boulons is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \sɛ.ʁe le bu.lɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Réduire le budget.".
serrer les boulons doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is serrer les boulons, spelled S-E-R-R-E-R- -L-E-S- -B-O-U-L-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Réduire le budget.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how serrer les boulons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il n’y a aucune économie à réaliser sur le champ de la santé, ni sur celui de la vieillesse. Si, demain, la logique est de serrer les boulons, nous irons droit dans le mur et nous nous exposerons à un choc démocratique profond.
Synonyms
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