faire profil bas
\fɛʁ pʁɔ.fil bɑ\
The verdict
“faire profil bas” 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) - Faire assaut de modestie et de discrétion, soit naturellement, soit dans le but de se faire oublier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-faire-profil-bas · faire profil bas · French
faire profil bas · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-6 6 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 profil bas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɛʁ pʁɔ.fil bɑ\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « faire profil bas » en français
Rare enough to double-check
faire profil bas is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \fɛʁ pʁɔ.fil bɑ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Faire assaut de modestie et de discrétion, soit naturellement, soit dans le but de se faire oublier.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for faire profil bas, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is faire profil bas, spelled F-A-I-R-E- -P-R-O-F-I-L- -B-A-S.
Definition
- 1Faire assaut de modestie et de discrétion, soit naturellement, soit dans le but de se faire oublier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how faire profil bas appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Depuis la dernière crise financière, bien pire que celle de 2008, qui avait entraîné la faillite du Crédit Suisse et de la Royal Bank of Scotland, sans parler de nombre d’autres établissements moins considérables, les banquiers faisaient profil bas, c’est le moins qu’on puisse dire.
Il vaut mieux faire profil bas, et ne pas donner une image trop négative de soi si l’on veut entrer dans ce monde-là.
This word in other languages
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.