avoir raison
\a.vwaʁ ʁɛ.zɔ̃\
The verdict
“avoir raison” 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
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Dire, penser quelque chose qui est vrai, ne pas se tromper ou commettre d’erreur.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | avoir raison |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.vwaʁ ʁɛ.zɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “avoir raison” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for avoir raison is 12 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.vwaʁ ʁɛ.zɔ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for avoir raison, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is avoir raison, spelled A-V-O-I-R- -R-A-I-S-O-N.
Definition
- 1Dire, penser quelque chose qui est vrai, ne pas se tromper ou commettre d’erreur.
- 2(Suivi par de et un verbe) Avoir des raisons, des motifs légitimes pour penser ou agir comme on le fait.
- 3(Suivi par de et un nom) Détruire ou mettre fin à quelque chose; triompher de ou défaire quelqu'un.
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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.
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Using “avoir raison”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-V-O-I-R- -R-A-I-S-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \a.vwaʁ ʁɛ.zɔ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.