en avoir plein les jambes
\ɑ̃.n‿a.vwaʁ plɛ̃ le ʒɑ̃b\
The verdict
“en avoir plein les jambes” 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
- 25
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Être las, fatigué d’une situation qui a trop duré ou suite à un grand effort physique.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | en avoir plein les jambes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.n‿a.vwaʁ plɛ̃ le ʒɑ̃b\ |
| Letters | 25 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “en avoir plein les jambes” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for en avoir plein les jambes is 25 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.n‿a.vwaʁ plɛ̃ le ʒɑ̃b\. 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 las, fatigué d’une situation qui a trop duré ou suite à un grand effort physique.".
No misspelling variants are generated for en avoir plein les jambes 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 les jambes, spelled E-N- -A-V-O-I-R- -P-L-E-I-N- -L-E-S- -J-A-M-B-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Être las, fatigué d’une situation qui a trop duré ou suite à un grand effort physique.
Synonyms
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- The one correct French spelling is E-N- -A-V-O-I-R- -P-L-E-I-N- -L-E-S- -J-A-M-B-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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