ficher la paix
\fi.ʃe la pɛ\
The verdict
“ficher la paix” 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
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Laisser tranquille.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ficher la paix |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fi.ʃe la pɛ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ficher la paix” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ficher la paix is 14 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fi.ʃe la pɛ\. 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: "Laisser tranquille.".
Zero misspellings are on record for ficher la paix in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is ficher la paix, spelled F-I-C-H-E-R- -L-A- -P-A-I-X.
Definition
- 1Laisser tranquille.
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 “ficher la paix”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is F-I-C-H-E-R- -L-A- -P-A-I-X - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \fi.ʃe la pɛ\ (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.