faire bonne mine
The verdict
“faire bonne mine” 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
- 16
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Faire un bon accueil à quelqu’un.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | faire bonne mine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɛʁ bɔn min\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “faire bonne mine” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for faire bonne mine is 16 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɛʁ bɔn min\. 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: "Faire un bon accueil à quelqu’un.".
No misspelling variants are generated for faire bonne mine 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 mine, spelled F-A-I-R-E- -B-O-N-N-E- -M-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Faire un bon accueil à quelqu’un.
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 “faire bonne mine”
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- The one correct French spelling is F-A-I-R-E- -B-O-N-N-E- -M-I-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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