avoir la grosse tête
\a.vwaʁ la ɡʁos tɛt\
The verdict
“avoir la grosse tête” 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
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Être très savant, très intelligent.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | avoir la grosse tête |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.vwaʁ la ɡʁos tɛt\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “avoir la grosse tête” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for avoir la grosse tête is 20 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.vwaʁ la ɡʁos tɛt\. 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 misspelling variants are generated for avoir la grosse tête 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 avoir la grosse tête, spelled A-V-O-I-R- -L-A- -G-R-O-S-S-E- -T-Ê-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Être très savant, très intelligent.
- 2Être prétentieux, se pavaner, se croire à tort ou à raison supérieur aux autres et le monter.
- 3Avoir la gueule de bois.
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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- The one correct French spelling is A-V-O-I-R- -L-A- -G-R-O-S-S-E- -T-Ê-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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