faire envie
\fɛ.ʁ‿ɑ̃.vi\
The verdict
“faire envie” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Exciter l’envie, le désir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-faire-envie · faire envie · French
faire envie · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 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 envie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɛ.ʁ‿ɑ̃.vi\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « faire envie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
faire envie is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \fɛ.ʁ‿ɑ̃.vi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Exciter l’envie, le désir.".
Zero misspellings are on record for faire envie in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is faire envie, spelled F-A-I-R-E- -E-N-V-I-E.
Definition
- 1Exciter l’envie, le désir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how faire envie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Las de faire envie, ils tentent de faire pitié. Ils ont ouvert une partie de leurs archives à un historien marxiste, Bouvier, assez savamment pour le faire arriver à cette conclusion : « L’année 1871 commença la décadence des Rothschild. »
Et mon destin doit faire envie.
Antonyms
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.