faire appel
\fɛ.ʁ‿a.pɛl\
The verdict
“faire appel” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Utiliser les moyens ou les services de.
Corpus desk
Index FR-faire-appel · faire appel · French
faire appel · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" 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 | faire appel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɛ.ʁ‿a.pɛl\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « faire appel » en français
Rare enough to double-check
faire appel is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \fɛ.ʁ‿a.pɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for faire appel, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is faire appel, spelled F-A-I-R-E- -A-P-P-E-L.
Definition
- 1Utiliser les moyens ou les services de.
- 2Refuser un jugement prononcé et, par une procédure juridique, demander un nouveau procès; se pourvoir contre, en appeler de, porter en appel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how faire appel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans les circonstances difficiles il ne faut pas dédaigner de faire appel, comme autrefois les Germains, aux conseils des femmes ; car elles ont une manière de concevoir les choses toute différente de la nôtre.
C’est en flattant l’orgueil d’Ève, en faisant appel à cet orgueil, que le serpent l’a déterminée à désobéir, et à goûter d’une pomme dont elle ne savait même pas si elle en aimerait le goût.
This word in other languages
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.