faire d’une pierre deux coups

\fɛʁ d‿yn pjɛʁ dø ku\

/\fɛʁ d‿yn pjɛʁ dø ku\/ verb

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.

Key facts for faire d’une pierre deux coups
PropertyValue
Headwordfaire d’une pierre deux coups
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\fɛʁ d‿yn pjɛʁ dø ku\
Letters29
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “faire d’une pierre deux coups” sits in French frequency

faire d’une pierre deux coups 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 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

  1. 1
    Résoudre, réaliser deux choses à la fois avec une seule action.

This word in other languages

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "faire d’une pierre deux coups"?
"faire d’une pierre deux coups" is 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. The IPA pronunciation is \fɛʁ d‿yn pjɛʁ dø ku\.
What does "faire d’une pierre deux coups" mean?
As a verb, "faire d’une pierre deux coups" means: Résoudre, réaliser deux choses à la fois avec une seule action.
How do you pronounce "faire d’une pierre deux coups"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "faire d’une pierre deux coups" is \fɛʁ d‿yn pjɛʁ dø ku\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “faire d’une pierre deux coups”

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

  • 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.
  • Say it as \fɛʁ d‿yn pjɛʁ dø ku\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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