faire bonne chère

/\fɛʁ bɔn ʃɛʁ\/ verb

The verdict

“faire bonne chère” 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
17
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Bien manger, faire ripaille, faire débauche de table.

Key facts for faire bonne chère
PropertyValue
Headwordfaire bonne chère
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\fɛʁ bɔn ʃɛʁ\
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “faire bonne chère” sits in French frequency

faire bonne chère falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for faire bonne chère is 17 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɛʁ bɔn ʃɛʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Bien manger, faire ripaille, faire débauche de table.".

No misspelling variants are generated for faire bonne chère in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 faire bonne chère, spelled F-A-I-R-E- -B-O-N-N-E- -C-H-È-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Bien manger, faire ripaille, faire débauche de table.

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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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "faire bonne chère"?
"faire bonne chère" is spelled F-A-I-R-E- -B-O-N-N-E- -C-H-È-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \fɛʁ bɔn ʃɛʁ\.
What does "faire bonne chère" mean?
As a verb, "faire bonne chère" means: Bien manger, faire ripaille, faire débauche de table.
How do you pronounce "faire bonne chère"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "faire bonne chère" is \fɛʁ bɔn ʃɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "faire bonne chère" come from?
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Using “faire bonne chère”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is F-A-I-R-E- -B-O-N-N-E- -C-H-È-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \fɛʁ bɔn ʃɛʁ\ (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.

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