avoir la marde au cul

\a.vwɑʁ la maʁ.d‿o ky\

/\a.vwɑʁ la maʁ.d‿o ky\/ verb

The verdict

“avoir la marde au cul” 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
21
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Avoir de la chance à répétition.

Key facts for avoir la marde au cul
PropertyValue
Headwordavoir la marde au cul
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.vwɑʁ la maʁ.d‿o ky\
Letters21
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “avoir la marde au cul” sits in French frequency

avoir la marde au cul falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for avoir la marde au cul is 21 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.vwɑʁ la maʁ.d‿o ky\. 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 de la chance à répétition.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for avoir la marde au cul in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is avoir la marde au cul, spelled A-V-O-I-R- -L-A- -M-A-R-D-E- -A-U- -C-U-L.

Definition

  1. 1
    Avoir de la chance à répétition.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "avoir la marde au cul"?
"avoir la marde au cul" is spelled A-V-O-I-R- -L-A- -M-A-R-D-E- -A-U- -C-U-L. The IPA pronunciation is \a.vwɑʁ la maʁ.d‿o ky\.
What does "avoir la marde au cul" mean?
As a verb, "avoir la marde au cul" means: Avoir de la chance à répétition.
How do you pronounce "avoir la marde au cul"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "avoir la marde au cul" is \a.vwɑʁ la maʁ.d‿o ky\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "avoir la marde au cul" come from?
"avoir la marde au cul" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Using “avoir la marde au cul”

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- -M-A-R-D-E- -A-U- -C-U-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \a.vwɑʁ la maʁ.d‿o ky\ (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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list