faire la pluie et le beau temps

\fɛʁ la plɥi e lə bo tɑ̃\

/\fɛʁ la plɥi e lə bo tɑ̃\/ verb

The verdict

“faire la pluie et le beau temps” 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
31
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Être décideur au sein d’un groupe humain ; entraîner une majorité avec soi.

Key facts for faire la pluie et le beau temps
PropertyValue
Headwordfaire la pluie et le beau temps
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\fɛʁ la plɥi e lə bo tɑ̃\
Letters31
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “faire la pluie et le beau temps” sits in French frequency

faire la pluie et le beau temps 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 pluie et le beau temps is 31 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɛʁ la plɥi e lə bo tɑ̃\. 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: "Être décideur au sein d’un groupe humain ; entraîner une majorité avec soi.".

No misspelling variants are generated for faire la pluie et le beau temps 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 pluie et le beau temps, spelled F-A-I-R-E- -L-A- -P-L-U-I-E- -E-T- -L-E- -B-E-A-U- -T-E-M-P-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Être décideur au sein d’un groupe humain ; entraîner une majorité avec soi.

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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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "faire la pluie et le beau temps"?
"faire la pluie et le beau temps" is spelled F-A-I-R-E- -L-A- -P-L-U-I-E- -E-T- -L-E- -B-E-A-U- -T-E-M-P-S. The IPA pronunciation is \fɛʁ la plɥi e lə bo tɑ̃\.
What does "faire la pluie et le beau temps" mean?
As a verb, "faire la pluie et le beau temps" means: Être décideur au sein d’un groupe humain ; entraîner une majorité avec soi.
How do you pronounce "faire la pluie et le beau temps"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "faire la pluie et le beau temps" is \fɛʁ la plɥi e lə bo tɑ̃\. 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 pluie et le beau temps”

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-L-U-I-E- -E-T- -L-E- -B-E-A-U- -T-E-M-P-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \fɛʁ la plɥi e lə bo tɑ̃\ (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.

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