avoir les crocs
\a.vwaʁ lɛ kʁo\
The verdict
“avoir les crocs” 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
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Avoir grand faim.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | avoir les crocs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.vwaʁ lɛ kʁo\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “avoir les crocs” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for avoir les crocs is 15 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.vwaʁ lɛ kʁo\. 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: "Avoir grand faim.".
No misspelling variants are generated for avoir les crocs in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is avoir les crocs, spelled A-V-O-I-R- -L-E-S- -C-R-O-C-S.
Definition
- 1Avoir grand faim.
This word in other languages
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.
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Using “avoir les crocs”
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-S- -C-R-O-C-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \a.vwaʁ lɛ kʁo\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.