faire valoir

/\fɛʁ va.lwaʁ\/ verb

Letters

12 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

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Confusables

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faire valoir is aFrenchverb. It means: Tirer d’une chose le profit, l’avantage qu’elle peut rapporter. Pronounced \fɛʁ va.lwaʁ\.

Key facts for faire valoir
PropertyValue
Headwordfaire valoir
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\fɛʁ va.lwaʁ\
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

faire valoir is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for faire valoir is 12 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɛʁ va.lwaʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for faire valoir in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is faire valoir, spelled F-A-I-R-E- -V-A-L-O-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Tirer d’une chose le profit, l’avantage qu’elle peut rapporter.
  2. 2
    Exploiter soi-même une terre dont on est propriétaire ou fermier.
  3. 3
    Donner du prix, faire paraître meilleure, plus belle, une chose.
  4. 4
    Relever ou vanter le mérite ou l’importance d’une chose.
  5. 5
    Donner par des discours et par adresse, une idée favorable des marchandises que l’on veut vendre.
  6. 6
    Louer beaucoup tout ce que l’on a et jusqu’aux moindres choses que l’on fait ou que l’on dit.
  7. 7
    Mettre quelqu’un en crédit, lui fournir des occasions de paraître à son avantage.
  8. 8
    Opposer ; objecter.
  9. 9
    Se faire apprécier.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "faire valoir"?
"faire valoir" is spelled F-A-I-R-E- -V-A-L-O-I-R. The IPA pronunciation is \fɛʁ va.lwaʁ\.
What does "faire valoir" mean?
As a verb, "faire valoir" means: Tirer d’une chose le profit, l’avantage qu’elle peut rapporter.
How do you pronounce "faire valoir"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "faire valoir" is \fɛʁ va.lwaʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "faire valoir" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.