faire la trace
\fɛʁ la tʁas\
The verdict
“faire la trace” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - À ski, être le premier à ouvrir un passage dans la neige.
Corpus desk
Index FR-faire-la-trace · faire la trace · French
faire la trace · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | faire la trace |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɛʁ la tʁas\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « faire la trace » en français
Rare enough to double-check
faire la trace is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \fɛʁ la tʁas\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "À ski, être le premier à ouvrir un passage dans la neige.".
faire la trace doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is faire la trace, spelled F-A-I-R-E- -L-A- -T-R-A-C-E.
Definition
- 1À ski, être le premier à ouvrir un passage dans la neige.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how faire la trace appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Du Lac aimait guider. Parfois, il laissait à Rémoville le soin de « faire la trace ». Chercher son passage constitue une noble mission « sous le ciel où rien ne luit ».
Synonyms
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.