se faire un point d’honneur de
The verdict
“se faire un point d’honneur de” 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
- 30
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Mettre un soin comparé au soin qu'on a de son honneur.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | se faire un point d’honneur de |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sə fɛ.ʁ‿œ̃ pwɛ̃ d‿ɔ.nœʁ də\ |
| Letters | 30 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “se faire un point d’honneur de” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for se faire un point d’honneur de is 30 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sə fɛ.ʁ‿œ̃ pwɛ̃ d‿ɔ.nœʁ də\. 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: "Mettre un soin comparé au soin qu'on a de son honneur.".
No misspelling variants are generated for se faire un point d’honneur de 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 se faire un point d’honneur de, spelled S-E- -F-A-I-R-E- -U-N- -P-O-I-N-T- -D-’-H-O-N-N-E-U-R- -D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mettre un soin comparé au soin qu'on a de son honneur.
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Using “se faire un point d’honneur de”
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- The one correct French spelling is S-E- -F-A-I-R-E- -U-N- -P-O-I-N-T- -D-’-H-O-N-N-E-U-R- -D-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \sə fɛ.ʁ‿œ̃ pwɛ̃ d‿ɔ.nœʁ də\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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