avoir la dent
\a.vwaʁ la dɑ̃\
The verdict
“avoir la dent” 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
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Avoir faim.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | avoir la dent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.vwaʁ la dɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “avoir la dent” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for avoir la dent is 13 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.vwaʁ la dɑ̃\. 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: "Avoir faim.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for avoir la dent, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is avoir la dent, spelled A-V-O-I-R- -L-A- -D-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Avoir faim.
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 la dent”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-V-O-I-R- -L-A- -D-E-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \a.vwaʁ la dɑ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.