avoir plus d’une corde à son arc
\a.vwaʁ ply d‿yn kɔʁ.d‿a sɔ̃.n‿aʁk\
The verdict
“avoir plus d’une corde à son arc” 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
- 32
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Avoir plus d’un procédé à disposition pour arriver à ses fins.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | avoir plus d’une corde à son arc |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.vwaʁ ply d‿yn kɔʁ.d‿a sɔ̃.n‿aʁk\ |
| Letters | 32 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “avoir plus d’une corde à son arc” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for avoir plus d’une corde à son arc is 32 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.vwaʁ ply d‿yn kɔʁ.d‿a sɔ̃.n‿aʁk\. 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 plus d’un procédé à disposition pour arriver à ses fins.".
No misspelling variants are generated for avoir plus d’une corde à son arc in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is avoir plus d’une corde à son arc, spelled A-V-O-I-R- -P-L-U-S- -D-’-U-N-E- -C-O-R-D-E- -À- -S-O-N- -A-R-C, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Avoir plus d’un procédé à disposition pour arriver à ses fins.
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- The one correct French spelling is A-V-O-I-R- -P-L-U-S- -D-’-U-N-E- -C-O-R-D-E- -À- -S-O-N- -A-R-C - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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