tête de nègre
\tɛt də nɛɡʁ\
The verdict
“tête de nègre” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adjective - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Couleur marron très foncé, tirant sur le noir.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tête de nègre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tɛt də nɛɡʁ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tête de nègre” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tête de nègre is 13 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɛt də nɛɡʁ\. 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: "Couleur marron très foncé, tirant sur le noir.".
No misspelling variants are generated for tête de nègre 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 nègre, spelled T-Ê-T-E- -D-E- -N-È-G-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Couleur marron très foncé, tirant sur le noir.
This word in other languages
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Using “tête de nègre”
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- The one correct French spelling is T-Ê-T-E- -D-E- -N-È-G-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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