faire la part des choses

/\fɛʁ la paʁ de ʃoz\/ verb

The verdict

“faire la part des choses” 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
24
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Trouver le juste milieu entre des intérêts, des situations, des avis divergents. Distinguer les éléments importants des éléments secondaires. Séparer objectivement différents aspects d'une situatio...

Key facts for faire la part des choses
PropertyValue
Headwordfaire la part des choses
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\fɛʁ la paʁ de ʃoz\
Letters24
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “faire la part des choses” sits in French frequency

faire la part des choses 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 part des choses is 24 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɛʁ la paʁ de ʃoz\. 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: "Trouver le juste milieu entre des intérêts, des situations, des avis divergents. Distinguer les éléments importants des éléments secondaires. Séparer objectivement différents aspects d'une situatio...".

No misspelling variants are generated for faire la part des choses 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 part des choses, spelled F-A-I-R-E- -L-A- -P-A-R-T- -D-E-S- -C-H-O-S-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Trouver le juste milieu entre des intérêts, des situations, des avis divergents. Distinguer les éléments importants des éléments secondaires. Séparer objectivement différents aspects d'une situation pour mieux les comprendre et les évaluer.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "faire la part des choses"?
"faire la part des choses" is spelled F-A-I-R-E- -L-A- -P-A-R-T- -D-E-S- -C-H-O-S-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \fɛʁ la paʁ de ʃoz\.
What does "faire la part des choses" mean?
As a verb, "faire la part des choses" means: Trouver le juste milieu entre des intérêts, des situations, des avis divergents. Distinguer les éléments importants des éléments secondaires. Séparer objectivement différents aspects d'une situatio...
How do you pronounce "faire la part des choses"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "faire la part des choses" is \fɛʁ la paʁ de ʃoz\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “faire la part des choses”

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- -P-A-R-T- -D-E-S- -C-H-O-S-E-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \fɛʁ la paʁ de ʃoz\ (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.