avoir le cul bordé de médailles
\a.vwaʁ lə ky bɔʁ.de də me.daj\
The verdict
“avoir le cul bordé de médailles” 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
- 31
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Avoir beaucoup de chance.
| 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) |
Where “avoir le cul bordé de médailles” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for avoir le cul bordé de médailles is 31 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.vwaʁ lə ky bɔʁ.de də me.daj\. 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: "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.
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 cul bordé de médailles”
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- The one correct French spelling is 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 - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.