en avoir sa claque
\ɑ̃.n‿a.waʁ sa klak\
The verdict
“en avoir sa claque” 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
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - En avoir assez, ne pas pouvoir supporter davantage.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | en avoir sa claque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.n‿a.waʁ sa klak\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “en avoir sa claque” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for en avoir sa claque is 18 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.n‿a.waʁ sa klak\. 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: "En avoir assez, ne pas pouvoir supporter davantage.".
No misspelling variants are generated for en avoir sa claque 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 sa claque, spelled E-N- -A-V-O-I-R- -S-A- -C-L-A-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1En avoir assez, ne pas pouvoir supporter davantage.
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 sa claque”
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- The one correct French spelling is E-N- -A-V-O-I-R- -S-A- -C-L-A-Q-U-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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