avoir pour son dire
\a.vwaʁ puʁ sɔ̃ diʁ\
The verdict
“avoir pour son dire” 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
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Début de phrase indiquant que le locuteur va énoncer un principe qui lui est cher.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | avoir pour son dire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.vwaʁ puʁ sɔ̃ diʁ\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “avoir pour son dire” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for avoir pour son dire is 19 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.vwaʁ puʁ sɔ̃ diʁ\. 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: "Début de phrase indiquant que le locuteur va énoncer un principe qui lui est cher.".
No misspelling variants are generated for avoir pour son dire 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 pour son dire, spelled A-V-O-I-R- -P-O-U-R- -S-O-N- -D-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Début de phrase indiquant que le locuteur va énoncer un principe qui lui est cher.
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-O-U-R- -S-O-N- -D-I-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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