avoir un pied dans la tombe

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for avoir un pied dans la tombe is 27 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.vwa.ʁ‿œ pje dɑ̃ la tɔ̃b\. 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 très âgé, très malade, sur le point de mourir.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for avoir un pied dans la tombe in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 pied dans la tombe, spelled A-V-O-I-R- -U-N- -P-I-E-D- -D-A-N-S- -L-A- -T-O-M-B-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.