faire exprès
\fɛ.ʁ‿ɛks.pʁɛ\
The verdict
“faire exprès” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire intentionnellement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-faire-expres · faire exprès · French
faire exprès · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 exprès |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɛ.ʁ‿ɛks.pʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « faire exprès » en français
Rare enough to double-check
faire exprès is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \fɛ.ʁ‿ɛks.pʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
faire exprès has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is faire exprès, spelled F-A-I-R-E- -E-X-P-R-È-S.
Definition
- 1Faire intentionnellement.
- 2Être parfaitement adapté à la situation ; être idoine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how faire exprès appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lorsque Forster demande à Dickens s’il avait fait exprès de donner à David Copperfield les initiales, inversées, de Charles Dickens, Dickens répondit que non, mais il fut troublé et ajouta que si Forster l’avait remarqué, c’était sûrement vrai, qu’il l’avait, en quelque sorte, fait exprès sans le savoir.
« Il faut se forcer, criait ma mère. Tu le fais exprès, ajoutait-elle comme toujours. » C’était le grand mot. « Tu le fais exprès ! »
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.