faire le pitre
The verdict
“faire le pitre” 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-pitre · faire le pitre · French
faire le pitre · 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 le pitre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « faire le pitre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
faire le pitre is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Faire l’intéressant, faire des choses inhabituelles pour se donner en spectacle.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for faire le pitre in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is faire le pitre, spelled F-A-I-R-E- -L-E- -P-I-T-R-E.
Definition
- 1Faire l’intéressant, faire des choses inhabituelles pour se donner en spectacle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how faire le pitre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il vaut mieux que les autres enfants rient parce que je fais le fou ou parce que je fais le pitre, plutôt qu'ils se moquent de moi.
This word in other languages
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.