faire sensation

/\fɛʁ sɑ̃.sa.sjɔ̃\/ verb

Letters

15 characters

Language

French

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faire sensation is aFrenchverb. It means: Impressionner ; avoir du succès. Pronounced \fɛʁ sɑ̃.sa.sjɔ̃\.

Key facts for faire sensation
PropertyValue
Headwordfaire sensation
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\fɛʁ sɑ̃.sa.sjɔ̃\
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

faire sensation is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for faire sensation is 15 letters long, classified as averb, 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.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for faire sensation in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is faire sensation, spelled F-A-I-R-E- -S-E-N-S-A-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Impressionner ; avoir du succès.

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How do you spell "faire sensation"?
"faire sensation" is spelled F-A-I-R-E- -S-E-N-S-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \fɛʁ sɑ̃.sa.sjɔ̃\.
What does "faire sensation" mean?
As a verb, "faire sensation" means: Impressionner ; avoir du succès.
How do you pronounce "faire sensation"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "faire sensation" is \fɛʁ sɑ̃.sa.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "faire sensation" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.