à la tête de

/\a la tɛt də\/ prep

Letters

12 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

à la tête de is aFrenchprep. It means: À la première place, au premier rang. Pronounced \a la tɛt də\.

Key facts for à la tête de
PropertyValue
Headwordà la tête de
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPrep
IPA\a la tɛt də\
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

à la tête de is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for à la tête de is 12 letters long, classified as aprep, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a la tɛt də\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for à la tête de 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 à la tête de, spelled À- -L-A- -T-Ê-T-E- -D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    À la première place, au premier rang.
  2. 2
    À la principale direction de.
  3. 3
    Dans la situation de détenir ou de posséder.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "à la tête de"?
"à la tête de" is spelled À- -L-A- -T-Ê-T-E- -D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a la tɛt də\.
What does "à la tête de" mean?
As a prep, "à la tête de" means: À la première place, au premier rang.
How do you pronounce "à la tête de"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "à la tête de" is \a la tɛt də\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "à la tête de" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.