tête à perruque
\tɛt‿a pɛ.ʁyk\
The verdict
“tête à perruque” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tête en bois ou en matériau synthétique sur laquelle l'on pose et l’on accommode des perruques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tete-a-perruque · tête à perruque · French
tête à perruque · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" 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 | tête à perruque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɛt‿a pɛ.ʁyk\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tête à perruque » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tête à perruque is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɛt‿a pɛ.ʁyk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for tête à perruque in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is tête à perruque, spelled T-Ê-T-E- -À- -P-E-R-R-U-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Tête en bois ou en matériau synthétique sur laquelle l'on pose et l’on accommode des perruques.
- 2Tête à laquelle sied bien le port d’une perruque.
- 3Vieillard qui a peu d’esprit et qui tient opiniâtrement à de vieux préjugés.
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.