ficher la paix
\fi.ʃe la pɛ\
The verdict
“ficher la paix” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Laisser tranquille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ficher-la-paix · ficher la paix · French
ficher la paix · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 | 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) |
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Rare enough to double-check
ficher la paix is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \fi.ʃe la pɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ficher la paix appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Monsieur, l'homme demande qu'on lui fiche la paix. Chacun est maître de soi-même, de ses opinions, de sa tenue et de ses actes, dans la limite de l'inoffensif.
Je pense doucement en ce moment à ce que se dit peut-être le lecteur : « Maintenant, le train pour la Suisse est parti. Ce jeune homme est rentré chez lui et il doit être consolé. Il va nous ficher la paix avec sa chère maman et nous allons le revoir avec ses belles amies. » Le lecteur est un peu pressé.
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.