avoir le noir
\a.vwaʁ lə nwaʁ\
The verdict
“avoir le noir” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Être triste, déprimé, mélancolique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-avoir-le-noir · avoir le noir · French
avoir le noir · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 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 noir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.vwaʁ lə nwaʁ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « avoir le noir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
avoir le noir is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \a.vwaʁ lə nwaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Être triste, déprimé, mélancolique.".
No misspelling variants are generated for avoir le noir in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is avoir le noir, spelled A-V-O-I-R- -L-E- -N-O-I-R.
Definition
- 1Être triste, déprimé, mélancolique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how avoir le noir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je fais tout son fourbi et je le distrais quand il a le noir…
On savait également qu'il m'arrivait encore parfois d'avoir le noir et de m'évanouir sans la moindre provocation.
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.