se faire tard
\sə fɛʁ taʁ\
The verdict
“se faire tard” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Advenir tardivement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-se-faire-tard · se faire tard · French
se faire tard · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" 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 | se faire tard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sə fɛʁ taʁ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « se faire tard » en français
Rare enough to double-check
se faire tard is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \sə fɛʁ taʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for se faire tard, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 se faire tard, spelled S-E- -F-A-I-R-E- -T-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Advenir tardivement.
- 2Faire bientôt nuit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how se faire tard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais si la ponte s’est faite tard, et qu’à cette époque le temps soit froid, les œufs n’écloront que longtemps après …
Il se fait tard.
This word in other languages
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