tête de buis
\tɛt də bɥi\
The verdict
“tête de buis” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne entêtée, qui a la tête dure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tete-de-buis · tête de buis · French
tête de buis · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 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 de buis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɛt də bɥi\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tête de buis » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tête de buis is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɛt də bɥi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne entêtée, qui a la tête dure.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tête de buis, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is tête de buis, spelled T-Ê-T-E- -D-E- -B-U-I-S.
Definition
- 1Personne entêtée, qui a la tête dure.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tête de buis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sylvain le harcelait inlassablement de « pourquoi ». La patience à bout, le pauvre grand-père, levant les bras, lui disait : « Oh ! tête de buis, ça suffit, va jouer. »
Synonyms
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.