avoir le cuir dur
\a.vwaʁ lə kɥiʁ dyʁ\
The verdict
“avoir le cuir dur” 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
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Animal à peau épaisse.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | avoir le cuir dur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.vwaʁ lə kɥiʁ dyʁ\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “avoir le cuir dur” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for avoir le cuir dur is 17 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.vwaʁ lə kɥiʁ dyʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for avoir le cuir dur, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, 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 cuir dur, spelled A-V-O-I-R- -L-E- -C-U-I-R- -D-U-R.
Definition
- 1Animal à peau épaisse.
- 2Être de constitution solide, robuste ; avoir une bonne santé.
- 3Être insensible aux critiques.
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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.
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Using “avoir le cuir dur”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-V-O-I-R- -L-E- -C-U-I-R- -D-U-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \a.vwaʁ lə kɥiʁ dyʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.