prendre la tête
\pʁɑ̃.dʁə la tɛːt\
The verdict
“prendre la tête” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prendre un poste de direction.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prendre-la-tete · prendre la tête · French
prendre la tête · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prendre la tête |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɑ̃.dʁə la tɛːt\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « prendre la tête » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prendre la tête is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \pʁɑ̃.dʁə la tɛːt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for prendre la tête in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is prendre la tête, spelled P-R-E-N-D-R-E- -L-A- -T-Ê-T-E.
Definition
- 1Prendre un poste de direction.
- 2Se retrouver en première position d’une compétition non encore terminée.
- 3Faire perdre patience.
- 4Inquiéter vivement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prendre la tête appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au début de 1840, George Sand prit la tête du mouvement saint-simonien, partisan d’un socialisme humaniste.
Bordeaux gagne et prend la tête du championnat.
This word in other languages
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.