faire la grimace
The verdict
“faire la grimace” 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
- 16
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Ne pas apprécier quelque chose.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | faire la grimace |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɛʁ la ɡʁi.mas\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “faire la grimace” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for faire la grimace is 16 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɛʁ la ɡʁi.mas\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for faire la grimace 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 grimace, spelled F-A-I-R-E- -L-A- -G-R-I-M-A-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ne pas apprécier quelque chose.
- 2Montrer une mauvaise mine, faire un mauvais accueil.
- 3Avoir un mauvais pli, en parlant des habits, des étoffes, etc.
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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- -G-R-I-M-A-C-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \fɛʁ la ɡʁi.mas\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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