avoir le cigare au bord des lèvres
\a.vwaʁ lə si.ɡa.ʁ‿o bɔʁ de lɛvʁ\
The verdict
“avoir le cigare au bord des lèvres” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 34
- 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-bord- · avoir le cigare au bord des lèvres · French
avoir le cigare au bord des lèvres · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 34 letters
- VOW-13 13 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 bord des lèvres |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.vwaʁ lə si.ɡa.ʁ‿o bɔʁ de lɛvʁ\ |
| Letters | 34 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « avoir le cigare au bord des lèvres » en français
Rare enough to double-check
avoir le cigare au bord des lèvres is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \a.vwaʁ lə si.ɡa.ʁ‿o bɔʁ de lɛvʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Avoir un besoin urgent de déféquer.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for avoir le cigare au bord des lèvres, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is avoir le cigare au bord des lèvres, spelled A-V-O-I-R- -L-E- -C-I-G-A-R-E- -A-U- -B-O-R-D- -D-E-S- -L-È-V-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Avoir un besoin urgent de déféquer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how avoir le cigare au bord des lèvres appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"Ah, c'était juste ! J'avais le cigare au bord des lèvres !"
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.