faire un flop
\fɛ.ʁ‿œ̃ flɔp\
The verdict
“faire un flop” 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
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Échouer (dans une entreprise), tomber à plat.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | faire un flop |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɛ.ʁ‿œ̃ flɔp\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “faire un flop” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for faire un flop is 13 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɛ.ʁ‿œ̃ flɔp\. 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: "Échouer (dans une entreprise), tomber à plat.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for faire un flop in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 un flop, spelled F-A-I-R-E- -U-N- -F-L-O-P.
Definition
- 1Échouer (dans une entreprise), tomber à plat.
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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 un flop”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is F-A-I-R-E- -U-N- -F-L-O-P - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \fɛ.ʁ‿œ̃ flɔp\ (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.