faire la tête
\fɛʁ la tɛt\
The verdict
“faire la 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
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bouder.
Corpus desk
Index FR-faire-la-tete · faire la tête · French
faire la tête · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" 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 | faire la tête |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɛʁ la tɛt\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « faire la tête » en français
Rare enough to double-check
faire la tête is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \fɛʁ la tɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bouder.".
faire la tête doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is faire la tête, spelled F-A-I-R-E- -L-A- -T-Ê-T-E.
Definition
- 1Bouder.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how faire la tête appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Martin Durand, témoin du marié, bougonnait sans se cacher, parce que les artistes ont toujours le droit de faire leur tête quand on a besoin d’eux.
Synonyms
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.