avoir soif
\a.vwaʁ swaf\
The verdict
“avoir soif” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ressentir le besoin ou l’envie de boire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-avoir-soif · avoir soif · French
avoir soif · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 soif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.vwaʁ swaf\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
avoir soif is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \a.vwaʁ swaf\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ressentir le besoin ou l’envie de boire.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for avoir soif, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is avoir soif, spelled A-V-O-I-R- -S-O-I-F.
Definition
- 1Ressentir le besoin ou l’envie de boire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how avoir soif appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand j’avais faim, tu m’as donné à manger. Quand j’avais soif, tu m’as donné à boire.
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.