faire lever le poil
\fɛʁ lə.ve lə pwal\
The verdict
“faire lever le poil” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Provoquer de l’émotion.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | faire lever le poil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɛʁ lə.ve lə pwal\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “faire lever le poil” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for faire lever le poil is 19 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɛʁ lə.ve lə pwal\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Provoquer de l’émotion.".
faire lever le poil has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is faire lever le poil, spelled F-A-I-R-E- -L-E-V-E-R- -L-E- -P-O-I-L.
Definition
- 1Provoquer de l’émotion.
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 lever le poil”
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-V-E-R- -L-E- -P-O-I-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \fɛʁ lə.ve lə pwal\ (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.