faire sensation
\fɛʁ sɑ̃.sa.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“faire sensation” 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
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Impressionner ; avoir du succès.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | faire sensation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɛʁ sɑ̃.sa.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “faire sensation” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for faire sensation is 15 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɛʁ sɑ̃.sa.sjɔ̃\. 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: "Impressionner ; avoir du succès.".
faire sensation doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 sensation, spelled F-A-I-R-E- -S-E-N-S-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Impressionner ; avoir du succès.
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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.
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Using “faire sensation”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is F-A-I-R-E- -S-E-N-S-A-T-I-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \fɛʁ sɑ̃.sa.sjɔ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.