faire le clown
\fɛʁ lə klun\
The verdict
“faire le clown” 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) - Faire l’intéressant, faire des choses inhabituelles pour se donner en spectacle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-faire-le-clown · faire le clown · French
faire le clown · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 clown |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɛʁ lə klun\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « faire le clown » en français
Rare enough to double-check
faire le clown is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \fɛʁ lə klun\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Faire l’intéressant, faire des choses inhabituelles pour se donner en spectacle.".
faire le clown has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 clown, spelled F-A-I-R-E- -L-E- -C-L-O-W-N.
Definition
- 1Faire l’intéressant, faire des choses inhabituelles pour se donner en spectacle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how faire le clown appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’ai grimpé sur le toit. Une petite partie avait l’air plus solide que le reste, alors j’ai fait gaffe à marcher sur celle-là, n’ayant pas envie de traverser la chose pour atterrir dans je ne sais quelle pièce sombre. Après quelques minutes à faire le clown, je suis passé par l’étroite fenêtre du grenier.
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.