avoir le gosier sec

/\a.vwaʁ lə ɡo.zje sɛk\/ verb

Letters

19 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

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similar word pairs

avoir le gosier sec is aFrenchverb. It means: Ressentir le besoin ou l’envie de boire. Pronounced \a.vwaʁ lə ɡo.zje sɛk\.

Key facts for avoir le gosier sec
PropertyValue
Headwordavoir le gosier sec
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.vwaʁ lə ɡo.zje sɛk\
Letters19
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

avoir le gosier sec is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for avoir le gosier sec is 19 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.vwaʁ lə ɡo.zje sɛk\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for avoir le gosier sec in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is avoir le gosier sec, spelled A-V-O-I-R- -L-E- -G-O-S-I-E-R- -S-E-C, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ressentir le besoin ou l’envie de boire.
  2. 2
    Aimer à boire, avoir toujours soif.

Synonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "avoir le gosier sec"?
"avoir le gosier sec" is spelled A-V-O-I-R- -L-E- -G-O-S-I-E-R- -S-E-C. The IPA pronunciation is \a.vwaʁ lə ɡo.zje sɛk\.
What does "avoir le gosier sec" mean?
As a verb, "avoir le gosier sec" means: Ressentir le besoin ou l’envie de boire.
How do you pronounce "avoir le gosier sec"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "avoir le gosier sec" is \a.vwaʁ lə ɡo.zje sɛk\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "avoir le gosier sec" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.