faute de frappe
\fot də fʁap\
The verdict
“faute de frappe” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - 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) - Erreur de saisie lors de l’utilisation d’un clavier d’une machine à écrire ou d’ordinateur.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | faute de frappe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fot də fʁap\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “faute de frappe” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for faute de frappe is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fot də fʁap\. 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: "Erreur de saisie lors de l’utilisation d’un clavier d’une machine à écrire ou d’ordinateur.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for faute de frappe, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is faute de frappe, spelled F-A-U-T-E- -D-E- -F-R-A-P-P-E.
Definition
- 1Erreur de saisie lors de l’utilisation d’un clavier d’une machine à écrire ou d’ordinateur.
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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 “faute de frappe”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is F-A-U-T-E- -D-E- -F-R-A-P-P-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \fot də fʁap\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.