position de tête
\pɔ.zi.sjɔ̃ də tɛt\
The verdict
“position de tête” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Place la plus favorable, attribuée, au départ d’une course, au concurrent qui a réalisé la meilleure performance lors des phases qualificatives.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | position de tête |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔ.zi.sjɔ̃ də tɛt\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “position de tête” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for position de tête is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɔ.zi.sjɔ̃ də 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: "Place la plus favorable, attribuée, au départ d’une course, au concurrent qui a réalisé la meilleure performance lors des phases qualificatives.".
No misspelling variants are generated for position de tête 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 position de tête, spelled P-O-S-I-T-I-O-N- -D-E- -T-Ê-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Place la plus favorable, attribuée, au départ d’une course, au concurrent qui a réalisé la meilleure performance lors des phases qualificatives.
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- The one correct French spelling is P-O-S-I-T-I-O-N- -D-E- -T-Ê-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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