ne pas faire long feu
\nə pa fɛʁ lɔ̃ fø\
The verdict
“ne pas faire long feu” 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
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ne pas durer longtemps.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ne pas faire long feu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \nə pa fɛʁ lɔ̃ fø\ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ne pas faire long feu” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ne pas faire long feu is 21 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nə pa fɛʁ lɔ̃ fø\. 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: "Ne pas durer longtemps.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ne pas faire long feu in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 ne pas faire long feu, spelled N-E- -P-A-S- -F-A-I-R-E- -L-O-N-G- -F-E-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ne pas durer longtemps.
Antonyms
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 “ne pas faire long feu”
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- The one correct French spelling is N-E- -P-A-S- -F-A-I-R-E- -L-O-N-G- -F-E-U - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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