avoir le ventre vide

verb

The verdict

“avoir le ventre vide” 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
20
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Être à jeun, ne pas avoir mangé depuis longtemps.

Key facts for avoir le ventre vide
PropertyValue
Headwordavoir le ventre vide
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
Letters20
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “avoir le ventre vide” sits in French frequency

avoir le ventre vide falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for avoir le ventre vide is 20 letters long, classified as a verb. 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: "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

  1. 1
    Être à jeun, ne pas avoir mangé depuis longtemps.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "avoir le ventre vide"?
"avoir le ventre vide" is spelled A-V-O-I-R- -L-E- -V-E-N-T-R-E- -V-I-D-E.
What does "avoir le ventre vide" mean?
As a verb, "avoir le ventre vide" means: Être à jeun, ne pas avoir mangé depuis longtemps.
What language does "avoir le ventre vide" come from?
"avoir le ventre vide" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Using “avoir le ventre vide”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is A-V-O-I-R- -L-E- -V-E-N-T-R-E- -V-I-D-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list