tête-de-loup
\tɛːt.də.lu\
The verdict
“tête-de-loup” 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) - Brosse sphérique au bout d’un long manche, servant à nettoyer les parties peu accessibles d’un lieu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tete-de-loup · tête-de-loup · French
tête-de-loup · 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-loup |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɛːt.də.lu\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
tête-de-loup is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɛːt.də.lu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for tête-de-loup, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is tête-de-loup, spelled T-Ê-T-E---D-E---L-O-U-P.
Definition
- 1Brosse sphérique au bout d’un long manche, servant à nettoyer les parties peu accessibles d’un lieu.
- 2Coupe de cheveux en brosse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tête-de-loup appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Juliette me mena jusqu’à un cagibi. Là, entre des balais et des têtes-de-loups, elle me montra une créature éblouissante. Une fée d’acier et de chrome : une Vespa.
Il bâilla, passa ses doigts écartés dans ses cheveux noirs coupés en tête-de-loup, se leva, empoigna sa valise et sortit.
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.