avoir le cigare au bec
\a.vwaʁ lə si.ɡa.ʁ‿o bɛk\
The verdict
“avoir le cigare au bec” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 22
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Avoir un besoin urgent de déféquer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-avoir-le-cigare-au-bec · avoir le cigare au bec · French
avoir le cigare au bec · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 22 letters
- VOW-10 10 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 cigare au bec |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.vwaʁ lə si.ɡa.ʁ‿o bɛk\ |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « avoir le cigare au bec » en français
Rare enough to double-check
avoir le cigare au bec is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \a.vwaʁ lə si.ɡa.ʁ‿o bɛk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Avoir un besoin urgent de déféquer.".
avoir le cigare au bec has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is avoir le cigare au bec, spelled A-V-O-I-R- -L-E- -C-I-G-A-R-E- -A-U- -B-E-C.
Definition
- 1Avoir un besoin urgent de déféquer.
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.