faire le con
\fɛʁ lə kɔ̃\
The verdict
“faire le con” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (souvent en parlant d'un enfant) Faire l'imbécile, être momentanément très excité, dissipé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-faire-le-con · faire le con · French
faire le con · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 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 con |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɛʁ lə kɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « faire le con » en français
Rare enough to double-check
faire le con is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \fɛʁ lə kɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(souvent en parlant d'un enfant) Faire l'imbécile, être momentanément très excité, dissipé.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for faire le con, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is faire le con, spelled F-A-I-R-E- -L-E- -C-O-N.
Definition
- 1(souvent en parlant d'un enfant) Faire l'imbécile, être momentanément très excité, dissipé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how faire le con appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tu as fini de faire le con ? Sinon, tu vas t’en prendre une !
Cela dit, si faire le con ne remonte guère qu’au siècle dernier, du moins dans ses traces écrites, l’idée, je dirai l’archétype de la chose, est vieille comme un chemin !
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.