avoir le ballon
\a.vwaʁ lə ba.lɔ̃\
The verdict
“avoir le ballon” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Être enceinte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-avoir-le-ballon · avoir le ballon · French
avoir le ballon · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | avoir le ballon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.vwaʁ lə ba.lɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « avoir le ballon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
avoir le ballon is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \a.vwaʁ lə ba.lɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Être enceinte.".
avoir le ballon doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is avoir le ballon, spelled A-V-O-I-R- -L-E- -B-A-L-L-O-N.
Definition
- 1Être enceinte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how avoir le ballon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comptine en vogue au cours moyen, l’année de ma communion solennelle : À Marseille je l’essaye / À Paris je me marie / À Toulon j’ai le ballon / À Mâcon j’ai le morpion.
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.