avoir la peau dure
The verdict
“avoir la peau dure” 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
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Être résistant à toutes les épreuves de la vie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | avoir la peau dure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “avoir la peau dure” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for avoir la peau dure is 18 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: "Être résistant à toutes les épreuves de la vie.".
No misspelling variants are generated for avoir la peau dure in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 peau dure, spelled A-V-O-I-R- -L-A- -P-E-A-U- -D-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Être résistant à toutes les épreuves de la vie.
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 one correct French spelling is A-V-O-I-R- -L-A- -P-E-A-U- -D-U-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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