avoir tort
\a.vwaʁ tɔʁ\
The verdict
“avoir tort” 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) - Ne pas avoir raison, se tromper.
Corpus desk
Index FR-avoir-tort · avoir tort · French
avoir tort · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 tort |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.vwaʁ tɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
avoir tort is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \a.vwaʁ tɔʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ne pas avoir raison, se tromper.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for avoir tort, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is avoir tort, spelled A-V-O-I-R- -T-O-R-T.
Definition
- 1Ne pas avoir raison, se tromper.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how avoir tort appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Beaucoup de personnes, dévorées par le Démon de l’Analogie, disent le chat d’une aiguille. Ces personnes ont tort : on doit écrire le chas.
Qu’est-ce, que le hasard parmi l’antiquité, Et parmi nous, la Providence ? Or, du hasard il n’est point de science : S’il en était, on aurait tort De l’appeler hasard, ni fortune, ni sort ; Toutes choses très incertaines. Quant aux volontés souveraines De celui qui fait tout, et rien qu’avec dessein, Qui les sait, que lui seul ? Comment lire en son sein ?
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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.