à tête reposée

/\a tɛt ʁə.po.ze\/ adv

Letters

14 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

à tête reposée is anFrenchadv. It means: À un moment plus opportun, auquel on pourra prendre le temps plutôt que de se hâter dans des circonstances défavorables. Pronounced \a tɛt ʁə.po.ze\.

Key facts for à tête reposée
PropertyValue
Headwordà tête reposée
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
IPA\a tɛt ʁə.po.ze\
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for à tête reposée is 14 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a tɛt ʁə.po.ze\. 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: "À un moment plus opportun, auquel on pourra prendre le temps plutôt que de se hâter dans des circonstances défavorables.".

No misspelling variants are generated for à tête reposée 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 à tête reposée, spelled À- -T-Ê-T-E- -R-E-P-O-S-É-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    À un moment plus opportun, auquel on pourra prendre le temps plutôt que de se hâter dans des circonstances défavorables.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "à tête reposée"?
"à tête reposée" is spelled À- -T-Ê-T-E- -R-E-P-O-S-É-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a tɛt ʁə.po.ze\.
What does "à tête reposée" mean?
As an adv, "à tête reposée" means: À un moment plus opportun, auquel on pourra prendre le temps plutôt que de se hâter dans des circonstances défavorables.
How do you pronounce "à tête reposée"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "à tête reposée" is \a tɛt ʁə.po.ze\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "à tête reposée" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.