avoir la tête dans le sac
\a.vwaʁ la tɛt dɑ̃ lə sak\
The verdict
“avoir la tête dans le sac” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 25
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Être mal réveillé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-avoir-la-tete-dans-le-sa · avoir la tête dans le sac · French
avoir la tête dans le sac · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 25 letters
- VOW-9 9 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 sac |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.vwaʁ la tɛt dɑ̃ lə sak\ |
| Letters | 25 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « avoir la tête dans le sac » en français
Rare enough to double-check
avoir la tête dans le sac is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \a.vwaʁ la tɛt dɑ̃ lə sak\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Être mal réveillé.".
avoir la tête dans le sac doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented 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 sac, spelled A-V-O-I-R- -L-A- -T-Ê-T-E- -D-A-N-S- -L-E- -S-A-C.
Definition
- 1Être mal réveillé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how avoir la tête dans le sac appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’arrive au service, je reconnais avoir la tête dans le sac.
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.