faire ses couches
\fɛʁ se kuʃ\
The verdict
“faire ses couches” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Accoucher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-faire-ses-couches · faire ses couches · French
faire ses couches · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-7 7 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 couches |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɛʁ se kuʃ\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « faire ses couches » en français
Rare enough to double-check
faire ses couches is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \fɛʁ se kuʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Accoucher.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for faire ses couches, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is faire ses couches, spelled F-A-I-R-E- -S-E-S- -C-O-U-C-H-E-S.
Definition
- 1Accoucher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how faire ses couches appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle fait ses couches chez son père, puis devient nonne pour le reste de ses jours : son fils est saint Travers.
Et, comme Hannah refusait avec obstination de quitter la ferme pour aller faire ses couches, bien au chaud, dans une maternité, avec tout l’appareil de docteurs, de sages-femmes patentées et de nurses que je désirais vivement, ce fut au milieu d’une belle bordée de neige que je dus atteler le traîneau pour aller chercher le renfort nécessaire.
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