se rompre la tête
The verdict
“se rompre 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
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - S’appliquer à quelque chose, avec une grande contention d’esprit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-se-rompre-la-tete · se rompre la tête · French
se rompre la tête · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-6 6 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 rompre la tête |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « se rompre la tête » en français
Rare enough to double-check
se rompre la tête is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "S’appliquer à quelque chose, avec une grande contention d’esprit.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for se rompre la tête in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is se rompre la tête, spelled S-E- -R-O-M-P-R-E- -L-A- -T-Ê-T-E.
Definition
- 1S’appliquer à quelque chose, avec une grande contention d’esprit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how se rompre la tête appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il s’est longtemps rompu la tête pour trouver un expédient.
Synonyms
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.