faire d’une pierre deux coups
\fɛʁ d‿yn pjɛʁ dø ku\
The verdict
“faire d’une pierre deux coups” 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
- 29
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Résoudre, réaliser deux choses à la fois avec une seule action.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | faire d’une pierre deux coups |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɛʁ d‿yn pjɛʁ dø ku\ |
| Letters | 29 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “faire d’une pierre deux coups” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for faire d’une pierre deux coups is 29 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɛʁ d‿yn pjɛʁ dø ku\. 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: "Résoudre, réaliser deux choses à la fois avec une seule action.".
No misspelling variants are generated for faire d’une pierre deux coups 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 d’une pierre deux coups, spelled F-A-I-R-E- -D-’-U-N-E- -P-I-E-R-R-E- -D-E-U-X- -C-O-U-P-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Résoudre, réaliser deux choses à la fois avec une seule action.
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- The one correct French spelling is F-A-I-R-E- -D-’-U-N-E- -P-I-E-R-R-E- -D-E-U-X- -C-O-U-P-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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