avoir fait son temps
\a.vwaʁ fɛ sɔ̃ tɑ̃\
The verdict
“avoir fait son temps” 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
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - N'être plus d'actualité ; n'être plus efficace ou applicable.
| 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) |
Where “avoir fait son temps” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for avoir fait son temps is 20 letters long, classified as a verb, 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.
Zero misspellings are on record for avoir fait son temps in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. 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.
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.
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 “avoir fait son temps”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-V-O-I-R- -F-A-I-T- -S-O-N- -T-E-M-P-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \a.vwaʁ fɛ sɔ̃ tɑ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.