faire dresser les cheveux
The verdict
“faire dresser les cheveux” 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: Faire horreur, horrifier ; susciter la colère, l’indignation ou la stupéfaction.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | faire dresser les cheveux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɛʁ dʁɛ.se lɛ ʃə.vø\ |
| Letters | 25 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “faire dresser les cheveux” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for faire dresser les cheveux is 25 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɛʁ dʁɛ.se lɛ ʃə.vø\. 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: "Faire horreur, horrifier ; susciter la colère, l’indignation ou la stupéfaction.".
No misspelling variants are generated for faire dresser les cheveux 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 dresser les cheveux, spelled F-A-I-R-E- -D-R-E-S-S-E-R- -L-E-S- -C-H-E-V-E-U-X, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Faire horreur, horrifier ; susciter la colère, l’indignation ou la stupéfaction.
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Using “faire dresser les cheveux”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is F-A-I-R-E- -D-R-E-S-S-E-R- -L-E-S- -C-H-E-V-E-U-X — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \fɛʁ dʁɛ.se lɛ ʃə.vø\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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