avoir un grain
\a.vwa.ʁ‿œ̃ ɡʁɛ̃\
The verdict
“avoir un grain” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Être un peu fou.
Corpus desk
Index FR-avoir-un-grain · avoir un grain · French
avoir un grain · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 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 un grain |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.vwa.ʁ‿œ̃ ɡʁɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « avoir un grain » en français
Rare enough to double-check
avoir un grain is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \a.vwa.ʁ‿œ̃ ɡʁɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Être un peu fou.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for avoir un grain in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 un grain, spelled A-V-O-I-R- -U-N- -G-R-A-I-N.
Definition
- 1Être un peu fou.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how avoir un grain appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais plus talentueux que Safet encore. Je ne sais pas si on se rend compte de nos jours, sur base du potentiel pur, que le RFC Liège comptait en ses rangs des génies incroyables au même moment, sans être au sommet de la D1 : Susic et Sljivo. Inimaginable en Jupiler league aujourd'hui. Susic n'a jamais pris soin de lui. Et, avouons-le, il avait un fameux g…
July décida que l’homme avait un grain, mais qu’il était probablement inoffensif.
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.