faute de frappe
\fot də fʁap\
The verdict
“faute de frappe” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Erreur de saisie lors de l’utilisation d’un clavier d’une machine à écrire ou d’ordinateur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-faute-de-frappe · faute de frappe · French
faute de frappe · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 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 | 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « faute de frappe » en français
Rare enough to double-check
faute de frappe is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \fot də fʁap\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how faute de frappe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais aucune dactylo n’est parfaite, et les fautes de frappe sont inévitables, tout le monde le sait.
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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.