se creuser la tête
\sə kʁø.ze la tɛt\
The verdict
“se creuser 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
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Faire des efforts intenses de réflexion, de mémoire.
| 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) |
Where “se creuser la tête” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for se creuser la tête is 18 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sə kʁø.ze 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: "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.
This word in other languages
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-E- -C-R-E-U-S-E-R- -L-A- -T-Ê-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \sə kʁø.ze la 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.