avoir du bol
\a.vwaʁ dy bɔl\
The verdict
“avoir du bol” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Avoir de la chance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-avoir-du-bol · avoir du bol · French
avoir du bol · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" 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 | avoir du bol |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.vwaʁ dy bɔl\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « avoir du bol » en français
Rare enough to double-check
avoir du bol is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \a.vwaʁ dy bɔl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Avoir de la chance.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for avoir du bol, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is avoir du bol, spelled A-V-O-I-R- -D-U- -B-O-L.
Definition
- 1Avoir de la chance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how avoir du bol appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pas de bol !
Et ben on a dû avoir du bol, parce qu’on a vu un ourson.
Synonyms
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.