faire la conversation

/\fɛʁ la kɔ̃.vɛʁ.sa.sjɔ̃\/ verb

The verdict

“faire la conversation” 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
21
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Entamer la conversation, parler, converser avec quelqu’un.

Key facts for faire la conversation
PropertyValue
Headwordfaire la conversation
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\fɛʁ la kɔ̃.vɛʁ.sa.sjɔ̃\
Letters21
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “faire la conversation” sits in French frequency

faire la conversation falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for faire la conversation is 21 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɛʁ la kɔ̃.vɛʁ.sa.sjɔ̃\. 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: "Entamer la conversation, parler, converser avec quelqu’un.".

No misspelling variants are generated for faire la conversation in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is faire la conversation, spelled F-A-I-R-E- -L-A- -C-O-N-V-E-R-S-A-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Entamer la conversation, parler, converser avec quelqu’un.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "faire la conversation"?
"faire la conversation" is spelled F-A-I-R-E- -L-A- -C-O-N-V-E-R-S-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \fɛʁ la kɔ̃.vɛʁ.sa.sjɔ̃\.
What does "faire la conversation" mean?
As a verb, "faire la conversation" means: Entamer la conversation, parler, converser avec quelqu’un.
How do you pronounce "faire la conversation"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "faire la conversation" is \fɛʁ la kɔ̃.vɛʁ.sa.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "faire la conversation" come from?
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Using “faire la conversation”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is F-A-I-R-E- -L-A- -C-O-N-V-E-R-S-A-T-I-O-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \fɛʁ la kɔ̃.vɛʁ.sa.sjɔ̃\ (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.