tête baissée
\tɛːt bɛ.se\
The verdict
“tête baissée” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Avec ardeur, précipitamment, sans rien examiner, sans rien craindre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tête baissée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \tɛːt bɛ.se\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tête baissée” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
tête baissée is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb, transcribed \tɛːt bɛ.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Avec ardeur, précipitamment, sans rien examiner, sans rien craindre.".
tête baissée has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 tête baissée, spelled T-Ê-T-E- -B-A-I-S-S-É-E.
Definition
- 1Avec ardeur, précipitamment, sans rien examiner, sans rien craindre.
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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 “tête baissée”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-Ê-T-E- -B-A-I-S-S-É-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \tɛːt bɛ.se\ (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.