alouette sans tête
\a.lwɛt sɑ̃ tɛt\
The verdict
“alouette sans tête” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Paupiette, plat constitué de fine tranche de viande, de préférence de veau, enroulée autour d'une farce.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alouette sans tête |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.lwɛt sɑ̃ tɛt\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “alouette sans tête” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
alouette sans tête is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.lwɛt sɑ̃ tɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Paupiette, plat constitué de fine tranche de viande, de préférence de veau, enroulée autour d'une farce.".
alouette sans tête has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is alouette sans tête, spelled A-L-O-U-E-T-T-E- -S-A-N-S- -T-Ê-T-E.
Definition
- 1Paupiette, plat constitué de fine tranche de viande, de préférence de veau, enroulée autour d'une farce.
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 “alouette sans tête”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-L-O-U-E-T-T-E- -S-A-N-S- -T-Ê-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.