avoir un balai dans le cul
The verdict
“avoir un balai dans le cul” 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
- 26
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Être guindé, rigide dans sa démarche ou bien hautain.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | avoir un balai dans le cul |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.vwa.ʁ‿œ̃ ba.lɛ dɑ̃ lə ky\ |
| Letters | 26 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “avoir un balai dans le cul” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for avoir un balai dans le cul is 26 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.vwa.ʁ‿œ̃ ba.lɛ dɑ̃ lə ky\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for avoir un balai dans le cul 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 un balai dans le cul, spelled A-V-O-I-R- -U-N- -B-A-L-A-I- -D-A-N-S- -L-E- -C-U-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Être guindé, rigide dans sa démarche ou bien hautain.
- 2Être coincé, mal à l’aise.
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Using “avoir un balai dans le cul”
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- The one correct French spelling is A-V-O-I-R- -U-N- -B-A-L-A-I- -D-A-N-S- -L-E- -C-U-L — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \a.vwa.ʁ‿œ̃ ba.lɛ dɑ̃ lə ky\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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