la tête haute

adv

Letters

13 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

la tête haute is anFrenchadv. It means: En relevant la tête.

Key facts for la tête haute
PropertyValue
Headwordla tête haute
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

la tête haute is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for la tête haute is 13 letters long, classified as anadv. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for 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 la tête haute, spelled 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

  1. 1
    En relevant la tête.
  2. 2
    Sans craindre, sans appréhender aucun reproche, aucun affront ; fièrement.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "la tête haute"?
"la tête haute" is spelled L-A- -T-Ê-T-E- -H-A-U-T-E.
What does "la tête haute" mean?
As an adv, "la tête haute" means: En relevant la tête.
What language does "la tête haute" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.