moineau sans tête
\mwa.no sɑ̃ tɛt\
The verdict
“moineau sans 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
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Sorte de paupiette, composée de chair à saucisse enroulée dans une fine tranche de bœuf (et, accessoirement, dans une tranche de jambon à l’intérieur) et cuisinée en sauce.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | moineau sans tête |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mwa.no sɑ̃ tɛt\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “moineau sans tête” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
moineau sans tête is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \mwa.no sɑ̃ tɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sorte de paupiette, composée de chair à saucisse enroulée dans une fine tranche de bœuf (et, accessoirement, dans une tranche de jambon à l’intérieur) et cuisinée en sauce.".
No misspelling variants are generated for moineau sans tête in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is moineau sans tête, spelled M-O-I-N-E-A-U- -S-A-N-S- -T-Ê-T-E.
Definition
- 1Sorte de paupiette, composée de chair à saucisse enroulée dans une fine tranche de bœuf (et, accessoirement, dans une tranche de jambon à l’intérieur) et cuisinée en sauce.
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 “moineau sans tête”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-O-I-N-E-A-U- -S-A-N-S- -T-Ê-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \mwa.no sɑ̃ tɛt\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.