faire le poireau
\fɛʁ lə pwa.ʁo\
The verdict
“faire le poireau” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Attendre longuement à un endroit sans bouger.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | faire le poireau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɛʁ lə pwa.ʁo\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “faire le poireau” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
faire le poireau is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \fɛʁ lə pwa.ʁo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Attendre longuement à un endroit sans bouger.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for faire le poireau, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is faire le poireau, spelled F-A-I-R-E- -L-E- -P-O-I-R-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Attendre longuement à un endroit sans bouger.
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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.
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Using “faire le poireau”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is F-A-I-R-E- -L-E- -P-O-I-R-E-A-U - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \fɛʁ lə pwa.ʁo\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.