en-tête
\ɑ̃.tɛt\
The verdict
“en-tête” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Texte écrit en haut d’une lettre, d’une brochure, d’un document, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-en-tete · en-tête · French
en-tête · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "E" 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 | en-tête |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.tɛt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « en-tête » en français
Rare enough to double-check
en-tête is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.tɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Texte écrit en haut d’une lettre, d’une brochure, d’un document, etc.".
en-tête doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is en-tête, spelled E-N---T-Ê-T-E.
Definition
- 1Texte écrit en haut d’une lettre, d’une brochure, d’un document, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how en-tête appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Papier à en-tête.
Faire imprimer des en-têtes de lettres.
This word in other languages
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.