tête de lit
\tɛt də li\
The verdict
“tête de lit” 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) - Pièce d’ameublement qui se fixe à l'extrémité du lit où le dormeur ou la dormeuse pose sa tête.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tête de lit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɛt də li\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tête de lit” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tête de lit is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɛt də li\. 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: "Pièce d’ameublement qui se fixe à l'extrémité du lit où le dormeur ou la dormeuse pose sa tête.".
No misspelling variants are generated for tête de lit in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is tête de lit, spelled T-Ê-T-E- -D-E- -L-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pièce d’ameublement qui se fixe à l'extrémité du lit où le dormeur ou la dormeuse pose sa tête.
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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- The one correct French spelling is T-Ê-T-E- -D-E- -L-I-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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