avoir la guigne
The verdict
“avoir la guigne” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Être très malchanceux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-avoir-la-guigne · avoir la guigne · French
avoir la guigne · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-7 7 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 guigne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « avoir la guigne » en français
Rare enough to double-check
avoir la guigne is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Être très malchanceux.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for avoir la guigne in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is avoir la guigne, spelled A-V-O-I-R- -L-A- -G-U-I-G-N-E.
Definition
- 1Être très malchanceux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how avoir la guigne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Duchotel. — Ah ! non, j’ai la guigne !
Le PSG a la guigne en LDC !
Antonyms
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.