tête humaine
\tɛ.t‿y.mɛn\
The verdict
“tête humaine” 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
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Partie supérieure du corps humain, qui est le siège du cerveau et des principaux organes des sens. Il est rattaché au reste du corps par le cou.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tête humaine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɛ.t‿y.mɛn\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tête humaine” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tête humaine is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɛ.t‿y.mɛn\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for tête humaine 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 humaine, spelled T-Ê-T-E- -H-U-M-A-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Partie supérieure du corps humain, qui est le siège du cerveau et des principaux organes des sens. Il est rattaché au reste du corps par le cou.
- 2Crâne humain.
- 3Élément architectural décoratif représentant l’ensemble (cou, crâne) d’un être humain (saint, héros, seigneur, commanditaire de la construction, donateur…). À rapprocher de gargouille
- 4Meuble représentant la tête d'un être humain avec son cou dans les armoiries. Cette terminologie est rarement employée. Généralement, lorsqu’une tête est représentée, il s’agit d'un personnage spécifique dont le nom doit être mentionné dans le blasonnement. Sa position est rarement définie. On peut trouver aussi bien des têtes humaines de profil que de front. À rapprocher de tête, tête de Maure et triquètre sicilien.
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- -H-U-M-A-I-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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