faire pleurer le colosse

verb

The verdict

“faire pleurer le colosse” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
24
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Uriner, évacuer l’urine.

Corpus desk

Index FR-faire-pleurer-le-colosse · faire pleurer le colosse · French

faire pleurer le colosse · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 24 letters
  • VOW-10 10 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.

Key facts for faire pleurer le colosse
PropertyValue
Headwordfaire pleurer le colosse
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
Letters24
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « faire pleurer le colosse » en français

faire pleurer le colossereste hors des 100.000 mots français les plus fréquents, dans la longue queue du vocabulaire technique, archaïque ou rare, là où le doute d'orthographe frappe.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

faire pleurer le colosse is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Uriner, évacuer l’urine.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for faire pleurer le colosse, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is faire pleurer le colosse, spelled F-A-I-R-E- -P-L-E-U-R-E-R- -L-E- -C-O-L-O-S-S-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Uriner, évacuer l’urine.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how faire pleurer le colosse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. C’est donc vrai que vous avez de petits zobs. Nous, à Gentilly, pisser, on appelle ça « faire pleurer le colosse ». La conversation, impitoyablement rapportée à table par Alamichel, déclencha des hennissements de rires […].

Synonyms

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "faire pleurer le colosse"?
"faire pleurer le colosse" is spelled F-A-I-R-E- -P-L-E-U-R-E-R- -L-E- -C-O-L-O-S-S-E.
What does "faire pleurer le colosse" mean?
As a verb, "faire pleurer le colosse" means: Uriner, évacuer l’urine.
What language does "faire pleurer le colosse" come from?
"faire pleurer le colosse" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list