faire ses adieux
\fɛʁ se.z‿a.djø\
The verdict
“faire ses adieux” 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) - Prendre congé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-faire-ses-adieux · faire ses adieux · French
faire ses adieux · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-8 8 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 ses adieux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɛʁ se.z‿a.djø\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « faire ses adieux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
faire ses adieux is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \fɛʁ se.z‿a.djø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prendre congé.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for faire ses adieux, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is faire ses adieux, spelled F-A-I-R-E- -S-E-S- -A-D-I-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Prendre congé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how faire ses adieux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vers la tombée du jour, le poète, ayant pris son parapluie, baisa galamment les mains de Mme Mirondeau et lui fit ses adieux.
La France allait faire ses adieux à Napoléon, à la veille d'une campagne dont les dangers étaient prévus par le moindre citoyen. Il s'agissait, cette fois, pour l'Empire Français, d'être ou de ne pas être.
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.