se faire tout petit
\sə fɛʁ tu pə.ti\
The verdict
“se faire tout petit” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Être le plus discret possible.
Corpus desk
Index FR-se-faire-tout-petit · se faire tout petit · French
se faire tout petit · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 19 letters
- VOW-8 8 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 tout petit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sə fɛʁ tu pə.ti\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « se faire tout petit » en français
Rare enough to double-check
se faire tout petit is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \sə fɛʁ tu pə.ti\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Être le plus discret possible.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for se faire tout petit, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 tout petit, spelled S-E- -F-A-I-R-E- -T-O-U-T- -P-E-T-I-T.
Definition
- 1Être le plus discret possible.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how se faire tout petit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sur le point d’être découvert, l’enfant se fit tout petit au fond de sa cachette.
Tu viens d’enchaîner quatre délits graves, alors si tu ne veux pas retourner en prison, tu as intérêt à te faire tout petit. La prochaine fois, je n’hésiterai pas à te dénoncer.
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.