faire le beau
\fɛʁ le bo\
The verdict
“faire le beau” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Frimer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-faire-le-beau · faire le beau · French
faire le beau · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-7 7 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 le beau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɛʁ le bo\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « faire le beau » en français
Rare enough to double-check
faire le beau is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \fɛʁ le bo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for faire le beau, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is faire le beau, spelled F-A-I-R-E- -L-E- -B-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Frimer.
- 2Se dit pour un chien qui se met debout.
- 3Se montrer flatteur et séduisant en vue d'une récompense.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how faire le beau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pontagnac. — Être obligé de faire le beau pour avoir du sucre !
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.