tête de con
\tɛt də kɔ̃\
The verdict
“tête de con” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Individu particulièrement désagréable, antipathique.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tête de con |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɛt də kɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tête de con” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tête de con is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɛt də kɔ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Individu particulièrement désagréable, antipathique.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for tête de con in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 con, spelled T-Ê-T-E- -D-E- -C-O-N.
Definition
- 1Individu particulièrement désagréable, antipathique.
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.
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Using “tête de con”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-Ê-T-E- -D-E- -C-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.