avoir du pot
\a.vwaʁ dy po\
The verdict
“avoir du pot” 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-pot · avoir du pot · French
avoir du pot · 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 pot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.vwaʁ dy po\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « avoir du pot » en français
Rare enough to double-check
avoir du pot is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \a.vwaʁ dy po\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Avoir de la chance.".
No misspelling variants are generated for avoir du pot in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is avoir du pot, spelled A-V-O-I-R- -D-U- -P-O-T.
Definition
- 1Avoir de la chance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how avoir du pot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pas de pot !
Il se mit à pleuvoir et on creva. Le père nota qu’on avait assez de pot, c’était le premier pépin, un pépin en quelque sorte normal et courant, dit-il en faisant marcher le cric, sous la flotte.
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.