avoir la marde au cul
\a.vwɑʁ la maʁ.d‿o ky\
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | avoir la marde au cul |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.vwɑʁ la maʁ.d‿o ky\ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “avoir la marde au cul” sits in French frequency
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
- 1Avoir 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.
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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.