avoir mal aux cheveux
\a.vwaʁ ma.l‿o ʃvø\
The verdict
“avoir mal aux cheveux” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Avoir des maux de tête dus aux effets tardifs de l’alcool.
Corpus desk
Index FR-avoir-mal-aux-cheveux · avoir mal aux cheveux · French
avoir mal aux cheveux · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 21 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 mal aux cheveux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.vwaʁ ma.l‿o ʃvø\ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
avoir mal aux cheveux is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \a.vwaʁ ma.l‿o ʃvø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Avoir des maux de tête dus aux effets tardifs de l’alcool.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for avoir mal aux cheveux, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 mal aux cheveux, spelled A-V-O-I-R- -M-A-L- -A-U-X- -C-H-E-V-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Avoir des maux de tête dus aux effets tardifs de l’alcool.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how avoir mal aux cheveux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et moi, vieux frère, après la cuite d’hier, j’ai eu mal aux cheveux.
Je finis avec Gin To après manger. - Fin de soirée, il est caramel, il est éclaté, mal aux cheveux le lendemain.
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.