avoir la tête dans les nuages
\a.vwaʁ la tɛt dɑ̃ le nɥaʒ\
The verdict
“avoir la tête dans les nuages” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 29
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Être rêveur, parfois distrait.
Corpus desk
Index FR-avoir-la-tete-dans-les-n · avoir la tête dans les nuages · French
avoir la tête dans les nuages · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 29 letters
- VOW-11 11 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 les nuages |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.vwaʁ la tɛt dɑ̃ le nɥaʒ\ |
| Letters | 29 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
avoir la tête dans les nuages is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \a.vwaʁ la tɛt dɑ̃ le nɥaʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Être rêveur, parfois distrait.".
avoir la tête dans les nuages doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is avoir la tête dans les nuages, spelled A-V-O-I-R- -L-A- -T-Ê-T-E- -D-A-N-S- -L-E-S- -N-U-A-G-E-S.
Definition
- 1Être rêveur, parfois distrait.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how avoir la tête dans les nuages appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il m’arrive fréquemment de ne pas avoir le réflexe qu’il faut, d’avoir la tête dans les nuages.
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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.