avoir la tête sur les épaules
The verdict
“avoir la tête sur les épaules” 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
- 29
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Être bien équilibré.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | avoir la tête sur les épaules |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.vwaʁ la tɛt syʁ lɛ.z‿e.pol\ |
| Letters | 29 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “avoir la tête sur les épaules” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for avoir la tête sur les épaules is 29 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.vwaʁ la tɛt syʁ lɛ.z‿e.pol\. 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 bien équilibré.".
No misspelling variants are generated for avoir la tête sur les épaules in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is avoir la tête sur les épaules, spelled A-V-O-I-R- -L-A- -T-Ê-T-E- -S-U-R- -L-E-S- -É-P-A-U-L-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Être bien équilibré.
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Using “avoir la tête sur les épaules”
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- The one correct French spelling is A-V-O-I-R- -L-A- -T-Ê-T-E- -S-U-R- -L-E-S- -É-P-A-U-L-E-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \a.vwaʁ la tɛt syʁ lɛ.z‿e.pol\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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