faire des vagues
\fɛʁ de vaɡ\
The verdict
“faire des vagues” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Générer de l'agitation, troubler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-faire-des-vagues · faire des vagues · French
faire des vagues · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | faire des vagues |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɛʁ de vaɡ\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « faire des vagues » en français
Rare enough to double-check
faire des vagues is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \fɛʁ de vaɡ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Générer de l'agitation, troubler.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for faire des vagues, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is faire des vagues, spelled F-A-I-R-E- -D-E-S- -V-A-G-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Générer de l'agitation, troubler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how faire des vagues appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En plein débat sur le stockage souterrain des déchets radioactifs, prévu à Bure (Meuse), la présentation, mardi 18 septembre, du rapport de la mission d’information parlementaire sur Stocamine, le centre d’enfouissement des déchets ultimes de Wittelsheim, dans le Haut-Rhin, promet de faire des vagues.
Si la réforme que s’apprête à déposer Simon Jolin-Barrette est aussi musclée que ce qu’on nous annonce, elle va faire des vagues et rencontrer des oppositions.
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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.