avoir un chat dans la gorge
The verdict
“avoir un chat dans la gorge” 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
- 27
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Éprouver quelque embarras dans le gosier qui empêche de chanter ou de parler.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | avoir un chat dans la gorge |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.vwa.ʁ‿œ̃ ʃa dɑ̃ la ɡɔʁʒ\ |
| Letters | 27 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “avoir un chat dans la gorge” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for avoir un chat dans la gorge is 27 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.vwa.ʁ‿œ̃ ʃa dɑ̃ la ɡɔʁʒ\. 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: "Éprouver quelque embarras dans le gosier qui empêche de chanter ou de parler.".
No misspelling variants are generated for avoir un chat dans la gorge 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 chat dans la gorge, spelled A-V-O-I-R- -U-N- -C-H-A-T- -D-A-N-S- -L-A- -G-O-R-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Éprouver quelque embarras dans le gosier qui empêche de chanter ou de parler.
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- The one correct French spelling is A-V-O-I-R- -U-N- -C-H-A-T- -D-A-N-S- -L-A- -G-O-R-G-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \a.vwa.ʁ‿œ̃ ʃa dɑ̃ la ɡɔʁʒ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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