en avoir plein le dos
\ɑ̃.n‿a.vwaʁ plɛ̃ lə do\
The verdict
“en avoir plein le dos” 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
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Être excédé à cause d’une personne ou d’une chose.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | en avoir plein le dos |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.n‿a.vwaʁ plɛ̃ lə do\ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “en avoir plein le dos” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for en avoir plein le dos is 21 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.n‿a.vwaʁ plɛ̃ lə do\. 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 excédé à cause d’une personne ou d’une chose.".
No misspelling variants are generated for en avoir plein le dos 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 en avoir plein le dos, spelled E-N- -A-V-O-I-R- -P-L-E-I-N- -L-E- -D-O-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Être excédé à cause d’une personne ou d’une chose.
Synonyms
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.
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Using “en avoir plein le dos”
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- The one correct French spelling is E-N- -A-V-O-I-R- -P-L-E-I-N- -L-E- -D-O-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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