faire hâte
\fɛ.ʁ‿ɑt\
The verdict
“faire hâte” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se presser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-faire-hate · faire hâte · French
faire hâte · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 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 hâte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɛ.ʁ‿ɑt\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « faire hâte » en français
Rare enough to double-check
faire hâte is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \fɛ.ʁ‿ɑt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Se presser.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for faire hâte, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 hâte, spelled F-A-I-R-E- -H-Â-T-E.
Definition
- 1Se presser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how faire hâte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand le vieux fut arrivé du bout de son champ aux acclamations de la vieille, et qu'il eut regardé à son tour le bel enfant que le bon Dieu leur donnait, le vieux et la vieille se mirent à s'embrasser en pleurant de joie ; et puis ils firent hâte de regagner la chaumine, parce que le serein qui tombait pouvait nuire à leur garçon.
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.