tête brûlée
\tɛt bʁy.le\
The verdict
“tête brûlée” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui prend des risques volontairement et inconsidérément, personne portée à l’excès.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tete-brulee · tête brûlée · French
tête brûlée · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 brûlée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɛt bʁy.le\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tête brûlée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tête brûlée is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɛt bʁy.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne qui prend des risques volontairement et inconsidérément, personne portée à l’excès.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for tête brûlée, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is tête brûlée, spelled T-Ê-T-E- -B-R-Û-L-É-E.
Definition
- 1Personne qui prend des risques volontairement et inconsidérément, personne portée à l’excès.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tête brûlée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Miller mettait toujours en garde ses ouailles contre leurs velléités de se comporter comme des têtes brûlées, mais au fond il aimait ça, les jeunes loups qui n'avaient pas peur de mettre leurs couilles sur la table. Ça lui rappelait sa jeunesse.
Nous ne sommes pas une bande de têtes brûlées. Si nous avions adopté une loi de finances différente, nous serions entrés en récession.
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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.