tenir la bride haute
\tə.niʁ la bʁi.də ot\
The verdict
“tenir la bride haute” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tenir la bride courte, à un cheval.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tenir-la-bride-haute · tenir la bride haute · French
tenir la bride haute · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 20 letters
- VOW-8 8 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" 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 | tenir la bride haute |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tə.niʁ la bʁi.də ot\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tenir la bride haute » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tenir la bride haute is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \tə.niʁ la bʁi.də ot\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
tenir la bride haute has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is tenir la bride haute, spelled T-E-N-I-R- -L-A- -B-R-I-D-E- -H-A-U-T-E.
Definition
- 1Tenir la bride courte, à un cheval.
- 2Laisser peu de liberté à quelqu’un ; le tenir de court.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tenir la bride haute appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il est bon de lui tenir un peu la bride haute.
Tenant la bride un peu haute à ce peuple déjà fort aliéné du service du Roi, il l'empêche de se déclarer et occupa les forts châteaux de Rosemont et de la Ferté-Chauldron.
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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.