hair of the dog
The verdict
“hair of the dog” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Boisson alcoolisée que l’on boit au réveil afin d’atténuer la gueule de bois. → voir rallumer la chaudière
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hair of the dog |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈhɛɹ ɑv ðə ˈdɔɡ\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hair of the dog” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for hair of the dog is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈhɛɹ ɑv ðə ˈdɔɡ\. 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: "Boisson alcoolisée que l’on boit au réveil afin d’atténuer la gueule de bois. → voir rallumer la chaudière".
No misspelling variants are generated for hair of the dog 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 hair of the dog, spelled H-A-I-R- -O-F- -T-H-E- -D-O-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Boisson alcoolisée que l’on boit au réveil afin d’atténuer la gueule de bois. → voir rallumer la chaudière
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Using “hair of the dog”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is H-A-I-R- -O-F- -T-H-E- -D-O-G — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ˈhɛɹ ɑv ðə ˈdɔɡ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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