têtière
Letters
7 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
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Confusables
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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\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | têtière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɛ.tjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1Partie supérieure de la bride, qui passe par-dessus la tête du cheval et qui soutient le mors.
- 2Pièce de dentelle, de broderie, etc., que l’on place au haut du dossier d’un fauteuil et sur laquelle vient s’appuyer la tête.
- 3Chevet d’un lit.
- 4Petite coiffe de toile que l’on mettait aux nouveaux-nés.
- 5Capuchon que portent les Chartreux.
- 6Pièce qui est à la tête d’une chose, à la partie supérieure d’un appareil.
- 7Ensemble des éléments graphiques, mot, groupe de mots, dessins répétitifs en en-tête de page de journal ou magazine.
- 8Partie supérieure d’une voile, plus particulièrement une voile carrée.
- 9Plaque de la serrure que l’on voit sur la tranche de la porte..
- 10Ensemble de tous les organes fixes et mobiles qui commandent un métier à filer.
- 11Lame de tôle qu’on met en tête des pages clichées pour les empêcher de bouger.
- 12Rameuse située à la tête de l’embarcation.
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