avoir toute sa tête
\a.vwaʁ tut sa tɛt\
The verdict
“avoir toute sa tête” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Conserver toute sa lucidité d’esprit, n’avoir pas le jugement affaibli, en parlant d’un malade ou d’un vieillard.
Corpus desk
Index FR-avoir-toute-sa-tete · avoir toute sa tête · French
avoir toute sa tête · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 19 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 toute sa tête |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.vwaʁ tut sa tɛt\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « avoir toute sa tête » en français
Rare enough to double-check
avoir toute sa tête is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \a.vwaʁ tut sa tɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Conserver toute sa lucidité d’esprit, n’avoir pas le jugement affaibli, en parlant d’un malade ou d’un vieillard.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for avoir toute sa tête in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is avoir toute sa tête, spelled A-V-O-I-R- -T-O-U-T-E- -S-A- -T-Ê-T-E.
Definition
- 1Conserver toute sa lucidité d’esprit, n’avoir pas le jugement affaibli, en parlant d’un malade ou d’un vieillard.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how avoir toute sa tête appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ne t’en fais pas pour lui, il sait ce qu’il fait ; le vieux a toute sa tête.
Bois, et ne te mêle pas de ce que nous faisons : pour ce que nous faisons il faut avoir toute sa tête.
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.