faire une pause
\fɛ.ʁ‿yn poz\
The verdict
“faire une pause” 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
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Interrompre une activité pendant un temps et la reprendre plus tard.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | faire une pause |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɛ.ʁ‿yn poz\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “faire une pause” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for faire une pause is 15 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɛ.ʁ‿yn poz\. 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: "Interrompre une activité pendant un temps et la reprendre plus tard.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for faire une pause, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 une pause, spelled F-A-I-R-E- -U-N-E- -P-A-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Interrompre une activité pendant un temps et la reprendre plus tard.
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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 une pause”
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-E- -P-A-U-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \fɛ.ʁ‿yn poz\ (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.