se faire un point d’honneur de

/\sə fɛ.ʁ‿œ̃ pwɛ̃ d‿ɔ.nœʁ də\/ verb

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.

Key facts for se faire un point d’honneur de
PropertyValue
Headwordse faire un point d’honneur de
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\sə fɛ.ʁ‿œ̃ pwɛ̃ d‿ɔ.nœʁ də\
Letters30
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “se faire un point d’honneur de” sits in French frequency

se faire un point d’honneur de falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Mettre un soin comparé au soin qu'on a de son honneur.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "se faire un point d’honneur de"?
"se faire un point d’honneur de" is 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. The IPA pronunciation is \sə fɛ.ʁ‿œ̃ pwɛ̃ d‿ɔ.nœʁ də\.
What does "se faire un point d’honneur de" mean?
As a verb, "se faire un point d’honneur de" means: Mettre un soin comparé au soin qu'on a de son honneur.
How do you pronounce "se faire un point d’honneur de"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "se faire un point d’honneur de" is \sə fɛ.ʁ‿œ̃ pwɛ̃ d‿ɔ.nœʁ də\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “se faire un point d’honneur de”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • 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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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.