faire le mort
Letters
13 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
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faire le mort is aFrenchverb. It means: Faire semblant d’être mort (en restant immobile, en bloquant sa respiration…). Pronounced \fɛʁ lə mɔʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | faire le mort |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɛʁ lə mɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for faire le mort is 13 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɛʁ lə mɔʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for faire le mort in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.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 le mort, spelled F-A-I-R-E- -L-E- -M-O-R-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Faire semblant d’être mort (en restant immobile, en bloquant sa respiration…).
- 2Ne plus donner de nouvelles, de signe de vie, ne pas se manifester (par volonté ou par ruse).
- 3Ne pas jouer une donne, lors d'une partie de tarot avec trop de participants. Faire le mort se fait à tour de rôle
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