faire peur
\fɛʁ pœʁ\
The verdict
“faire peur” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Effrayer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-faire-peur · faire peur · French
faire peur · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 peur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɛʁ pœʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « faire peur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
faire peur is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \fɛʁ pœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Effrayer.".
faire peur doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is faire peur, spelled F-A-I-R-E- -P-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Effrayer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how faire peur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lors de la Coupe du monde 2027 en Australie, Grégory Alldritt aura 30 ans, alors que Charles Ollivon, autre candidat, en aura 34 et semble donc moins sûr de voir le pays des bestioles qui font peur.
J’ai tué personne là-bas, je tirais en l’air pour leur faire peur…
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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.