avoir le beurre et l’argent du beurre
\a.vwaʁ lə bœ.ʁ‿e l‿aʁ.ʒɑ̃ dy bœʁ\
The verdict
“avoir le beurre et l’argent du beurre” 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
- 37
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Demander l’impossible.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | avoir le beurre et l’argent du beurre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.vwaʁ lə bœ.ʁ‿e l‿aʁ.ʒɑ̃ dy bœʁ\ |
| Letters | 37 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “avoir le beurre et l’argent du beurre” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for avoir le beurre et l’argent du beurre is 37 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.vwaʁ lə bœ.ʁ‿e l‿aʁ.ʒɑ̃ dy bœʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for avoir le beurre et l’argent du beurre 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 le beurre et l’argent du beurre, spelled A-V-O-I-R- -L-E- -B-E-U-R-R-E- -E-T- -L-’-A-R-G-E-N-T- -D-U- -B-E-U-R-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Demander l’impossible.
- 2Se dit de deux choses dont la réunion constitue un événement rare et idéal.
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- The one correct French spelling is A-V-O-I-R- -L-E- -B-E-U-R-R-E- -E-T- -L-’-A-R-G-E-N-T- -D-U- -B-E-U-R-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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