faire du pied
\fɛʁ dy pje\
The verdict
“faire du pied” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Toucher le pied de quelqu’un pour lui dire quelque chose ou entrer en contact avec lui.
Corpus desk
Index FR-faire-du-pied · faire du pied · French
faire du pied · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 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 du pied |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɛʁ dy pje\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « faire du pied » en français
Rare enough to double-check
faire du pied is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \fɛʁ dy pje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for faire du pied in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is faire du pied, spelled F-A-I-R-E- -D-U- -P-I-E-D.
Definition
- 1Toucher le pied de quelqu’un pour lui dire quelque chose ou entrer en contact avec lui.
- 2Faire des avances discrètes, par un contact des pieds ou par un autre moyen.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how faire du pied appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mariette faisait de temps à autre du pied à Hélène et lui adressait des sourires qui se voulaient apaisants.
Ils ont commencé par me regarder, ensuite, ils se sont assis à côté de moi, et le premier m’a fait du pied.
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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.