avoir la gueule de bois
\a.vwaʁ la ɡœl də bwa\
The verdict
“avoir la gueule de bois” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 23
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Souffrir des effets d’une ivresse récente.
Corpus desk
Index FR-avoir-la-gueule-de-bois · avoir la gueule de bois · French
avoir la gueule de bois · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 23 letters
- VOW-11 11 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 la gueule de bois |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.vwaʁ la ɡœl də bwa\ |
| Letters | 23 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
avoir la gueule de bois is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \a.vwaʁ la ɡœl də bwa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Souffrir des effets d’une ivresse récente.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for avoir la gueule de bois, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is avoir la gueule de bois, spelled A-V-O-I-R- -L-A- -G-U-E-U-L-E- -D-E- -B-O-I-S.
Definition
- 1Souffrir des effets d’une ivresse récente.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how avoir la gueule de bois appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais avoir la gueule de bois c’est aussi infiniment triste lorsqu’on est tout seul, sans une épaule sur laquelle on pourrait verser des larmes qui finalement ne coulent jamais.
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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.