passer de la tête
\pa.se də la tɛt\
The verdict
“passer de la tête” 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
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Oublier, sortir de la tête.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | passer de la tête |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pa.se də la tɛt\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “passer de la tête” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for passer de la tête is 17 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pa.se də la tɛt\. 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: "Oublier, sortir de la tête.".
passer de la tête has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is passer de la tête, spelled P-A-S-S-E-R- -D-E- -L-A- -T-Ê-T-E.
Definition
- 1Oublier, sortir de la tête.
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 “passer de la tête”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-A-S-S-E-R- -D-E- -L-A- -T-Ê-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.