avoir la mèche courte
The verdict
“avoir la mèche courte” 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) - Réagir rapidement et fortement, être impatient.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | avoir la mèche courte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “avoir la mèche courte” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for avoir la mèche courte is 21 letters long, classified as a verb. 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: "Réagir rapidement et fortement, être impatient.".
No misspelling variants are generated for avoir la mèche courte in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is avoir la mèche courte, spelled A-V-O-I-R- -L-A- -M-È-C-H-E- -C-O-U-R-T-E.
Definition
- 1Réagir rapidement et fortement, être impatient.
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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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-È-C-H-E- -C-O-U-R-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.