avoir la tête dans le pâté
\a.vwaʁ la tɛt dɑ̃ lə pa.te\
The verdict
“avoir la tête dans le pâté” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 26
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ne pas se sentir très réveillé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-avoir-la-tete-dans-le-pa · avoir la tête dans le pâté · French
avoir la tête dans le pâté · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 26 letters
- VOW-10 10 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | avoir la tête dans le pâté |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.vwaʁ la tɛt dɑ̃ lə pa.te\ |
| Letters | 26 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
avoir la tête dans le pâté is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \a.vwaʁ la tɛt dɑ̃ lə pa.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ne pas se sentir très réveillé.".
Zero misspellings are on record for avoir la tête dans le pâté in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is avoir la tête dans le pâté, spelled A-V-O-I-R- -L-A- -T-Ê-T-E- -D-A-N-S- -L-E- -P-Â-T-É.
Definition
- 1Ne pas se sentir très réveillé.
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.