faire un flop
\fɛ.ʁ‿œ̃ flɔp\
The verdict
“faire un flop” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Échouer (dans une entreprise), tomber à plat.
Corpus desk
Index FR-faire-un-flop · faire un flop · French
faire un flop · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « faire un flop » en français
Rare enough to double-check
faire un flop is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \fɛ.ʁ‿œ̃ flɔp\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how faire un flop appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’avais fait un flop au théâtre avec l’adaptation d’un livre de Carco, L’Homme traqué.
Les « grands classiques » développés dans ce chapitre démontrent qu’un produit n’a pas besoin d’être particulièrement mauvais pour faire un flop.
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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.