faire des frais
\fɛʁ de fʁɛ\
The verdict
“faire des frais” 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
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Acheter des choses qui coûtent cher.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | faire des frais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɛʁ de fʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “faire des frais” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for faire des frais is 15 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɛʁ de fʁɛ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for faire des frais 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 des frais, spelled F-A-I-R-E- -D-E-S- -F-R-A-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Acheter des choses qui coûtent cher.
- 2Faire des efforts pour charmer quelqu’un.
- 3Dire quelques mots aimables.
Synonyms
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 des frais”
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- The one correct French spelling is F-A-I-R-E- -D-E-S- -F-R-A-I-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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