faire feu des deux fuseaux
\fɛʁ fø de dø fy.zo\
The verdict
“faire feu des deux fuseaux” 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
- 26
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - En parlant de femmes, s’en aller rapidement, filer, déguerpir.
| 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) |
Where “faire feu des deux fuseaux” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for faire feu des deux fuseaux is 26 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɛʁ fø de dø fy.zo\. 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: "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.
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.
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Using “faire feu des deux fuseaux”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is F-A-I-R-E- -F-E-U- -D-E-S- -D-E-U-X- -F-U-S-E-A-U-X - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \fɛʁ fø de dø fy.zo\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.