avoir plusieurs fers au feu
\a.vwaʁ ply.zjœʁ fɛ.ʁ‿o fø\
The verdict
“avoir plusieurs fers au feu” 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
- 27
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Avoir en même temps plusieurs travaux ou projets en cours.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | avoir plusieurs fers au feu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.vwaʁ ply.zjœʁ fɛ.ʁ‿o fø\ |
| Letters | 27 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “avoir plusieurs fers au feu” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for avoir plusieurs fers au feu is 27 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.vwaʁ ply.zjœʁ fɛ.ʁ‿o fø\. 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 en même temps plusieurs travaux ou projets en cours.".
No misspelling variants are generated for avoir plusieurs fers au feu 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 plusieurs fers au feu, spelled A-V-O-I-R- -P-L-U-S-I-E-U-R-S- -F-E-R-S- -A-U- -F-E-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Avoir en même temps plusieurs travaux ou projets en cours.
Synonyms
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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- The one correct French spelling is A-V-O-I-R- -P-L-U-S-I-E-U-R-S- -F-E-R-S- -A-U- -F-E-U - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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