avoir le cafard
\a.vwaʁ lə ka.faʁ\
The verdict
“avoir le cafard” 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 triste, déprimé, mélancolique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-avoir-le-cafard · avoir le cafard · French
avoir le cafard · 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 cafard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.vwaʁ lə ka.faʁ\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « avoir le cafard » en français
Rare enough to double-check
avoir le cafard is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \a.vwaʁ lə ka.faʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Être triste, déprimé, mélancolique.".
avoir le cafard doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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 carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is avoir le cafard, spelled A-V-O-I-R- -L-E- -C-A-F-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Être triste, déprimé, mélancolique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how avoir le cafard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Depuis que ma copine m’a quitté, j’ai tout le temps le cafard.
Il m’est arrivé d’avoir le cafard, ce que j’appelle le cafard, ça doit se situer entre treize et dix-huit ans à peu près.
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.