avoir le cuir épais
\a.vwaʁ lə kɥi.ʁ‿e.pɛ\
The verdict
“avoir le cuir épais” 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
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Être particulièrement insensible.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | avoir le cuir épais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.vwaʁ lə kɥi.ʁ‿e.pɛ\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “avoir le cuir épais” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for avoir le cuir épais is 19 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.vwaʁ lə kɥi.ʁ‿e.pɛ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Être particulièrement insensible.".
No misspelling variants are generated for avoir le cuir épais in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is avoir le cuir épais, spelled A-V-O-I-R- -L-E- -C-U-I-R- -É-P-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Être particulièrement insensible.
Synonyms
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 épais”
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- -É-P-A-I-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \a.vwaʁ lə kɥi.ʁ‿e.pɛ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.