se prendre la tête
The verdict
“se prendre 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
Dominant Wiktionary sense: S’énerver, s’obnubiler, se rendre fou.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | se prendre la tête |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sə pʁɑ̃dʁ la tɛt\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “se prendre la tête” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for se prendre la tête is 18 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sə pʁɑ̃dʁ la tɛt\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for se prendre la 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 se prendre la tête, spelled S-E- -P-R-E-N-D-R-E- -L-A- -T-Ê-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1S’énerver, s’obnubiler, se rendre fou.
- 2S’ennuyer profondément.
- 3Se compliquer la vie.
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- The one correct French spelling is S-E- -P-R-E-N-D-R-E- -L-A- -T-Ê-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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