faire feu des deux fuseaux
\fɛʁ fø de dø fy.zo\
The verdict
“faire feu des deux fuseaux” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 26
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - En parlant de femmes, s’en aller rapidement, filer, déguerpir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-faire-feu-des-deux-fusea · faire feu des deux fuseaux · French
faire feu des deux fuseaux · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 26 letters
- VOW-12 12 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 feu des deux fuseaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɛʁ fø de dø fy.zo\ |
| Letters | 26 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « faire feu des deux fuseaux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
faire feu des deux fuseaux is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \fɛʁ fø de dø fy.zo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "En parlant de femmes, s’en aller rapidement, filer, déguerpir.".
Zero misspellings are on record for faire feu des deux fuseaux in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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. The correct French form is faire feu des deux fuseaux, spelled F-A-I-R-E- -F-E-U- -D-E-S- -D-E-U-X- -F-U-S-E-A-U-X.
Definition
- 1En parlant de femmes, s’en aller rapidement, filer, déguerpir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how faire feu des deux fuseaux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dès que la féminine engeance Sut que le singe était puceau, au lieu de profiter de la chance elle fit feu des deux fuseaux.
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.