faire banque
\fɛʁ bɑ̃k\
The verdict
“faire banque” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire banqueroute, faire faillite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-faire-banque · faire banque · French
faire banque · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 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 banque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɛʁ bɑ̃k\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « faire banque » en français
Rare enough to double-check
faire banque is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \fɛʁ bɑ̃k\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Faire banqueroute, faire faillite.".
faire banque has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is faire banque, spelled F-A-I-R-E- -B-A-N-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Faire banqueroute, faire faillite.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how faire banque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une épicerie modèle, qu’ils disaient. Elle a fait “banque”. L’homme s’est foutu un coup de fusil dans la ganache et on a vendu la moutarde et le sel à l’encan.
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.