avoir honte
\a.vwa.ʁ‿ɔ̃t\
The verdict
“avoir honte” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Éprouver un sentiment de honte.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | avoir honte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.vwa.ʁ‿ɔ̃t\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “avoir honte” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
avoir honte is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \a.vwa.ʁ‿ɔ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Éprouver un sentiment de honte.".
avoir honte has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is avoir honte, spelled A-V-O-I-R- -H-O-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Éprouver un sentiment de honte.
This word in other languages
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.
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Using “avoir honte”
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- The one correct French spelling is A-V-O-I-R- -H-O-N-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.