faire bouger les lignes
The verdict
“faire bouger les lignes” 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
- 23
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Provoquer un effet, parvenir à modifier une situation par son action.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | faire bouger les lignes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɛʁ bu.ʒe le liɲ\ |
| Letters | 23 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “faire bouger les lignes” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for faire bouger les lignes is 23 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɛʁ bu.ʒe le liɲ\. 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: "Provoquer un effet, parvenir à modifier une situation par son action.".
No misspelling variants are generated for faire bouger les lignes 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 bouger les lignes, spelled F-A-I-R-E- -B-O-U-G-E-R- -L-E-S- -L-I-G-N-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Provoquer un effet, parvenir à modifier une situation par son action.
This word in other languages
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Using “faire bouger les lignes”
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- The one correct French spelling is F-A-I-R-E- -B-O-U-G-E-R- -L-E-S- -L-I-G-N-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \fɛʁ bu.ʒe le liɲ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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