avoir la tête près du bonnet
\a.vwaʁ la tɛt pʁɛ dy bɔ.nɛ\
The verdict
“avoir la tête près du bonnet” 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
- 28
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Se fâcher facilement.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | avoir la tête près du bonnet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.vwaʁ la tɛt pʁɛ dy bɔ.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 28 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “avoir la tête près du bonnet” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for avoir la tête près du bonnet is 28 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.vwaʁ la tɛt pʁɛ dy bɔ.nɛ\. 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: "Se fâcher facilement.".
No misspelling variants are generated for avoir la tête près du bonnet in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for 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 près du bonnet, spelled A-V-O-I-R- -L-A- -T-Ê-T-E- -P-R-È-S- -D-U- -B-O-N-N-E-T.
Definition
- 1Se fâcher facilement.
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- -T-Ê-T-E- -P-R-È-S- -D-U- -B-O-N-N-E-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.