avoir le ventre vide
The verdict
“avoir le ventre vide” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Être à jeun, ne pas avoir mangé depuis longtemps.
Corpus desk
Index FR-avoir-le-ventre-vide · avoir le ventre vide · French
avoir le ventre vide · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 20 letters
- VOW-8 8 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 ventre vide |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « avoir le ventre vide » en français
Rare enough to double-check
avoir le ventre vide is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Être à jeun, ne pas avoir mangé depuis longtemps.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for avoir le ventre vide in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is avoir le ventre vide, spelled A-V-O-I-R- -L-E- -V-E-N-T-R-E- -V-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1Être à jeun, ne pas avoir mangé depuis longtemps.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how avoir le ventre vide appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La légende voulait que les soldats se montrent plus efficaces le ventre vide, mais ils ne tiendraient pas longtemps contre des adversaires reposés et rassasiés.
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.