tête carrée
\tɛt ka.ʁe\
The verdict
“tête carrée” 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) - Homme résolu, entêté, obstiné.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tete-carree · tête carrée · French
tête carrée · 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 carrée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɛt ka.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
tête carrée is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɛt ka.ʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for tête carrée in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is tête carrée, spelled T-Ê-T-E- -C-A-R-R-É-E.
Definition
- 1Homme résolu, entêté, obstiné.
- 2Anglophone canadien ou anglophone en général.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tête carrée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’Histoire et les chansons nous avaient appris que nous avions la tête ronde des Vieux Gaulois, cela nous inclinait à penser et à dire que les gens d’au-delà du Rhin étaient des têtes carrées.
Frogs, c’est une insulte! c’est un outrage à tout un peuple habituellement lancé par une tête carrée qui veut aplatir les Canadiens français!, a-t-on rouspété.
This word in other languages
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.