avoir la guigne

verb

Letters

15 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

avoir la guigne is aFrenchverb. It means: Être très malchanceux.

Key facts for avoir la guigne
PropertyValue
Headwordavoir la guigne
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

avoir la guigne is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for avoir la guigne is 15 letters long, classified as averb. 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: "Être très malchanceux.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for avoir la guigne in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is avoir la guigne, spelled A-V-O-I-R- -L-A- -G-U-I-G-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Être très malchanceux.

Antonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "avoir la guigne"?
"avoir la guigne" is spelled A-V-O-I-R- -L-A- -G-U-I-G-N-E.
What does "avoir la guigne" mean?
As a verb, "avoir la guigne" means: Être très malchanceux.
What language does "avoir la guigne" come from?
"avoir la guigne" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.