avoir les chevilles qui enflent
\a.vwaʁ le ʃə.vij ki ɑ̃fl\
The verdict
“avoir les chevilles qui enflent” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 31
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tirer une fierté exagérée d’une réussite passagère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-avoir-les-chevilles-qui- · avoir les chevilles qui enflent · French
avoir les chevilles qui enflent · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 31 letters
- VOW-11 11 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 les chevilles qui enflent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.vwaʁ le ʃə.vij ki ɑ̃fl\ |
| Letters | 31 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
avoir les chevilles qui enflent is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \a.vwaʁ le ʃə.vij ki ɑ̃fl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tirer une fierté exagérée d’une réussite passagère.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for avoir les chevilles qui enflent in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is avoir les chevilles qui enflent, spelled A-V-O-I-R- -L-E-S- -C-H-E-V-I-L-L-E-S- -Q-U-I- -E-N-F-L-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Tirer une fierté exagérée d’une réussite passagère.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how avoir les chevilles qui enflent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Arrête de parler de ton 16 en français ! Tu as les chevilles qui enflent !
À force de parler de lui, il a les chevilles qui enflent.
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.