faire de l’autostop
\fɛʁ də l‿o.tɔ.stɔp\
The verdict
“faire de l’autostop” 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
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Arrêter un véhicule dans le but de se faire transporter gratuitement.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | faire de l’autostop |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɛʁ də l‿o.tɔ.stɔp\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “faire de l’autostop” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for faire de l’autostop is 19 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɛʁ də l‿o.tɔ.stɔp\. 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: "Arrêter un véhicule dans le but de se faire transporter gratuitement.".
faire de l’autostop doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is faire de l’autostop, spelled F-A-I-R-E- -D-E- -L-’-A-U-T-O-S-T-O-P.
Definition
- 1Arrêter un véhicule dans le but de se faire transporter gratuitement.
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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 de l’autostop”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is F-A-I-R-E- -D-E- -L-’-A-U-T-O-S-T-O-P - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.