garder la tête haute
\ɡaʁ.de la tɛt ot\
The verdict
“garder la tête haute” 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
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Se tenir fièrement, ne rien appréhender.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | garder la tête haute |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡaʁ.de la tɛt ot\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “garder la tête haute” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for garder la tête haute is 20 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡaʁ.de la tɛt ot\. 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 tenir fièrement, ne rien appréhender.".
No misspelling variants are generated for garder la tête haute 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 garder la tête haute, spelled G-A-R-D-E-R- -L-A- -T-Ê-T-E- -H-A-U-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Se tenir fièrement, ne rien appréhender.
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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Using “garder la tête haute”
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- The one correct French spelling is G-A-R-D-E-R- -L-A- -T-Ê-T-E- -H-A-U-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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