avoir les pieds sur terre
\a.vwaʁ le pje syʁ tɛʁ\
The verdict
“avoir les pieds sur terre” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 25
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Être réaliste.
Corpus desk
Index FR-avoir-les-pieds-sur-terr · avoir les pieds sur terre · French
avoir les pieds sur terre · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 25 letters
- VOW-9 9 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 pieds sur terre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.vwaʁ le pje syʁ tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 25 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
avoir les pieds sur terre is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \a.vwaʁ le pje syʁ tɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for avoir les pieds sur terre, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is avoir les pieds sur terre, spelled A-V-O-I-R- -L-E-S- -P-I-E-D-S- -S-U-R- -T-E-R-R-E.
Definition
- 1Être réaliste.
- 2Avoir du bon sens.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how avoir les pieds sur terre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Qu’il ne comprenne pas la différence entre un projet et un rêve ! Ce garçon, au fond, n’avait pas les pieds sur terre, quelque chose qu’on devait voir souvent chez les riches, comme si la réalité ne les concernait pas.
avoir les pieds sur terre
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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.