faire des yeux de velours
The verdict
“faire des yeux de velours” 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
- 25
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Prendre un regard qui cherche à charmer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | faire des yeux de velours |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɛʁ dɛ.z‿jø də və.luʁ\ |
| Letters | 25 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “faire des yeux de velours” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for faire des yeux de velours is 25 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɛʁ dɛ.z‿jø də və.luʁ\. 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: "Prendre un regard qui cherche à charmer.".
No misspelling variants are generated for faire des yeux de velours 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 yeux de velours, spelled F-A-I-R-E- -D-E-S- -Y-E-U-X- -D-E- -V-E-L-O-U-R-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Prendre un regard qui cherche à charmer.
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Using “faire des yeux de velours”
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-S- -Y-E-U-X- -D-E- -V-E-L-O-U-R-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \fɛʁ dɛ.z‿jø də və.luʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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