avoir les joues en feu
\a.vwaʁ le ʒu ɑ̃ fø\
The verdict
“avoir les joues en feu” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 22
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Être rouge de honte ou de colère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-avoir-les-joues-en-feu · avoir les joues en feu · French
avoir les joues en feu · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 22 letters
- VOW-10 10 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 joues en feu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.vwaʁ le ʒu ɑ̃ fø\ |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « avoir les joues en feu » en français
Rare enough to double-check
avoir les joues en feu is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \a.vwaʁ le ʒu ɑ̃ fø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for avoir les joues en feu, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is avoir les joues en feu, spelled A-V-O-I-R- -L-E-S- -J-O-U-E-S- -E-N- -F-E-U.
Definition
- 1Être rouge de honte ou de colère.
- 2Être rouge à cause du froid.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how avoir les joues en feu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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