sortir de la tête
\sɔʁ.tiʁ də la tɛt\
The verdict
“sortir de 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
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Oublier.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sortir de la tête |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sɔʁ.tiʁ də la tɛt\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sortir de la tête” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sortir de la tête is 17 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɔʁ.tiʁ də 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: "Oublier.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sortir de la tête, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is sortir de la tête, spelled S-O-R-T-I-R- -D-E- -L-A- -T-Ê-T-E.
Definition
- 1Oublier.
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.
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Using “sortir de la tête”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-O-R-T-I-R- -D-E- -L-A- -T-Ê-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \sɔʁ.tiʁ də 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.