avoir fait son temps

/\a.vwaʁ fɛ sɔ̃ tɑ̃\/ verb

Letters

20 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

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similar word pairs

avoir fait son temps is aFrenchverb. It means: N'être plus d'actualité ; n'être plus efficace ou applicable. Pronounced \a.vwaʁ fɛ sɔ̃ tɑ̃\.

Key facts for avoir fait son temps
PropertyValue
Headwordavoir fait son temps
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.vwaʁ fɛ sɔ̃ tɑ̃\
Letters20
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

avoir fait son temps is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for avoir fait son temps is 20 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.vwaʁ fɛ sɔ̃ tɑ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for avoir fait son temps in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 avoir fait son temps, spelled A-V-O-I-R- -F-A-I-T- -S-O-N- -T-E-M-P-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    N'être plus d'actualité ; n'être plus efficace ou applicable.
  2. 2
    Être hors d’usage en parlant d'une chose.
  3. 3
    Avoir terminé une période de temps prévu par des obligations légales.
  4. 4
    Avoir terminé sa vie utile, en parlant d'une personne.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "avoir fait son temps"?
"avoir fait son temps" is spelled A-V-O-I-R- -F-A-I-T- -S-O-N- -T-E-M-P-S. The IPA pronunciation is \a.vwaʁ fɛ sɔ̃ tɑ̃\.
What does "avoir fait son temps" mean?
As a verb, "avoir fait son temps" means: N'être plus d'actualité ; n'être plus efficace ou applicable.
How do you pronounce "avoir fait son temps"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "avoir fait son temps" is \a.vwaʁ fɛ sɔ̃ tɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "avoir fait son temps" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.