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 September 3, 2026) - Attendre longuement à un endroit sans bouger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-faire-le-poireau · faire le poireau · French
faire le poireau · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-9 9 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 poireau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɛʁ lə pwa.ʁo\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « faire le poireau » en français
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how faire le poireau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’avais fait le poireau de neuf heures du matin jusqu'à dix heures, avant que l'autre bouffon de dealer s'amène. Je l'imaginais qui devait prendre son petit déj’ peinard pendant que je me pelais le jonc à l'attendre.
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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.