avoir fait son temps
Letters
20 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
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\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | avoir fait son temps |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.vwaʁ fɛ sɔ̃ tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1N'être plus d'actualité ; n'être plus efficace ou applicable.
- 2Être hors d’usage en parlant d'une chose.
- 3Avoir terminé une période de temps prévu par des obligations légales.
- 4Avoir terminé sa vie utile, en parlant d'une personne.
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