ne pas faire son âge
\nə pa fɛʁ sɔ̃.n‿ɑʒ\
The verdict
“ne pas faire son âge” 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
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Paraître plus jeune qu’on ne l’est en réalité.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ne pas faire son âge |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \nə pa fɛʁ sɔ̃.n‿ɑʒ\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ne pas faire son âge” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ne pas faire son âge is 20 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nə pa fɛʁ sɔ̃.n‿ɑʒ\. 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: "Paraître plus jeune qu’on ne l’est en réalité.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ne pas faire son âge 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 son âge, spelled N-E- -P-A-S- -F-A-I-R-E- -S-O-N- -Â-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Paraître plus jeune qu’on ne l’est en réalité.
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 son âge”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is N-E- -P-A-S- -F-A-I-R-E- -S-O-N- -Â-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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