têtière

/\tɛ.tjɛʁ\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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similar word pairs

têtière is aFrenchnoun. It means: Partie supérieure de la bride, qui passe par-dessus la tête du cheval et qui soutient le mors. Pronounced \tɛ.tjɛʁ\.

Key facts for têtière
PropertyValue
Headwordtêtière
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tɛ.tjɛʁ\
Letters7
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

têtière is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for têtière is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɛ.tjɛʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for têtière in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 têtière, spelled T-Ê-T-I-È-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Partie supérieure de la bride, qui passe par-dessus la tête du cheval et qui soutient le mors.
  2. 2
    Pièce de dentelle, de broderie, etc., que l’on place au haut du dossier d’un fauteuil et sur laquelle vient s’appuyer la tête.
  3. 3
    Chevet d’un lit.
  4. 4
    Petite coiffe de toile que l’on mettait aux nouveaux-nés.
  5. 5
    Capuchon que portent les Chartreux.
  6. 6
    Pièce qui est à la tête d’une chose, à la partie supérieure d’un appareil.
  7. 7
    Ensemble des éléments graphiques, mot, groupe de mots, dessins répétitifs en en-tête de page de journal ou magazine.
  8. 8
    Partie supérieure d’une voile, plus particulièrement une voile carrée.
  9. 9
    Plaque de la serrure que l’on voit sur la tranche de la porte..
  10. 10
    Ensemble de tous les organes fixes et mobiles qui commandent un métier à filer.
  11. 11
    Lame de tôle qu’on met en tête des pages clichées pour les empêcher de bouger.
  12. 12
    Rameuse située à la tête de l’embarcation.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "têtière"?
"têtière" is spelled T-Ê-T-I-È-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \tɛ.tjɛʁ\.
What does "têtière" mean?
As a noun, "têtière" means: Partie supérieure de la bride, qui passe par-dessus la tête du cheval et qui soutient le mors.
How do you pronounce "têtière"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "têtière" is \tɛ.tjɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "têtière" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.