se creuser la tête
\sə kʁø.ze la tɛt\
The verdict
“se creuser 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
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire des efforts intenses de réflexion, de mémoire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-se-creuser-la-tete · se creuser la tête · French
se creuser la tête · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 18 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" 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 | se creuser la tête |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sə kʁø.ze la tɛt\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « se creuser la tête » en français
Rare enough to double-check
se creuser la tête is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \sə kʁø.ze la tɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Faire des efforts intenses de réflexion, de mémoire.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for se creuser la tête, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is se creuser la tête, spelled S-E- -C-R-E-U-S-E-R- -L-A- -T-Ê-T-E.
Definition
- 1Faire des efforts intenses de réflexion, de mémoire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how se creuser la tête appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bois donc, désœuvré, au lieu de te creuser la tête.
Rien, absolument rien ; j’ai beau me creuser la tête, je ne puis me rappeler ce que j’ai rêvé cette nuit.
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.