avoir le cul bordé de médailles
\a.vwaʁ lə ky bɔʁ.de də me.daj\
The verdict
“avoir le cul bordé de médailles” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 31
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Avoir beaucoup de chance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-avoir-le-cul-borde-de-me · avoir le cul bordé de médailles · French
avoir le cul bordé de médailles · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 31 letters
- VOW-12 12 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 cul bordé de médailles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.vwaʁ lə ky bɔʁ.de də me.daj\ |
| Letters | 31 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « avoir le cul bordé de médailles » en français
Rare enough to double-check
avoir le cul bordé de médailles is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \a.vwaʁ lə ky bɔʁ.de də me.daj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Avoir beaucoup de chance.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for avoir le cul bordé de médailles, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is avoir le cul bordé de médailles, spelled A-V-O-I-R- -L-E- -C-U-L- -B-O-R-D-É- -D-E- -M-É-D-A-I-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Avoir beaucoup de chance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how avoir le cul bordé de médailles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Plus tard, beaucoup plus tard, c’est une femme, une très belle femme, — la seule que je connaisse à parler encore naturellement, sans affectation ni afféterie, le parigot populaire, idiome inventif, plein d’humour et de trouvailles langagières — qui emploiera devant moi ces expressions désignant la chance : « T’as le cul bordé de médailles ! », ou, encore…
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.