avoir la tête dans le cul
\a.vwaʁ la tɛt dɑ̃ lə ky\
The verdict
“avoir la tête dans le cul” 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
- 25
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Être mal réveillé, souvent à cause d'abus d'alcool.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | avoir la tête dans le cul |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.vwaʁ la tɛt dɑ̃ lə ky\ |
| Letters | 25 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “avoir la tête dans le cul” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for avoir la tête dans le cul is 25 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.vwaʁ la tɛt dɑ̃ lə ky\. 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: "Être mal réveillé, souvent à cause d'abus d'alcool.".
Zero misspellings are on record for avoir la tête dans le cul in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is avoir la tête dans le cul, spelled A-V-O-I-R- -L-A- -T-Ê-T-E- -D-A-N-S- -L-E- -C-U-L.
Definition
- 1Être mal réveillé, souvent à cause d'abus d'alcool.
Synonyms
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 “avoir la tête dans le cul”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-V-O-I-R- -L-A- -T-Ê-T-E- -D-A-N-S- -L-E- -C-U-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \a.vwaʁ la tɛt dɑ̃ lə ky\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.