avoir un coup de marteau

/\a.vwa.ʁ‿œ̃ ku d(ə )maʁ.to\/ verb

Letters

24 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

avoir un coup de marteau is aFrenchverb. It means: Être un peu fou. Pronounced \a.vwa.ʁ‿œ̃ ku d(ə )maʁ.to\.

Key facts for avoir un coup de marteau
PropertyValue
Headwordavoir un coup de marteau
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.vwa.ʁ‿œ̃ ku d(ə )maʁ.to\
Letters24
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

avoir un coup de marteau is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for avoir un coup de marteau is 24 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.vwa.ʁ‿œ̃ ku d(ə )maʁ.to\. 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: "Être un peu fou.".

No misspelling variants are generated for avoir un coup de marteau 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 coup de marteau, spelled A-V-O-I-R- -U-N- -C-O-U-P- -D-E- -M-A-R-T-E-A-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Être un peu fou.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "avoir un coup de marteau"?
"avoir un coup de marteau" is spelled A-V-O-I-R- -U-N- -C-O-U-P- -D-E- -M-A-R-T-E-A-U. The IPA pronunciation is \a.vwa.ʁ‿œ̃ ku d(ə )maʁ.to\.
What does "avoir un coup de marteau" mean?
As a verb, "avoir un coup de marteau" means: Être un peu fou.
How do you pronounce "avoir un coup de marteau"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "avoir un coup de marteau" is \a.vwa.ʁ‿œ̃ ku d(ə )maʁ.to\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "avoir un coup de marteau" come from?
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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.