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 September 3, 2026) - Éprouver un sentiment de honte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-avoir-honte · avoir honte · French
avoir honte · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 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 honte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.vwa.ʁ‿ɔ̃t\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « avoir honte » en français
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how avoir honte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De manquer à sa parole, tout homme devrait avoir honte.
Tu n’as pas 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.