faire la queue

/\fɛʁ la kø\/ verb

Letters

14 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

faire la queue is aFrenchverb. It means: Être dans une file d’attente avant d’être servi. Pronounced \fɛʁ la kø\.

Key facts for faire la queue
PropertyValue
Headwordfaire la queue
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\fɛʁ la kø\
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

faire la queue is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for faire la queue is 14 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɛʁ la kø\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for faire la queue in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 queue, spelled F-A-I-R-E- -L-A- -Q-U-E-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Être dans une file d’attente avant d’être servi.
  2. 2
    Se ranger par ordre, les uns derrière les autres, afin de passer chacun à son tour à une audience, à une distribution, etc.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "faire la queue"?
"faire la queue" is spelled F-A-I-R-E- -L-A- -Q-U-E-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \fɛʁ la kø\.
What does "faire la queue" mean?
As a verb, "faire la queue" means: Être dans une file d’attente avant d’être servi.
How do you pronounce "faire la queue"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "faire la queue" is \fɛʁ la kø\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "faire la queue" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.