tirer une tête
\ti.ʁe yn tɛt\
The verdict
“tirer une tête” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bouder.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tirer-une-tete · tirer une tête · French
tirer une tête · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 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 | tirer une tête |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ti.ʁe yn tɛt\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tirer une tête » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tirer une tête is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ti.ʁe yn tɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bouder.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tirer une tête, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is tirer une tête, spelled T-I-R-E-R- -U-N-E- -T-Ê-T-E.
Definition
- 1Bouder.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tirer une tête appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Le procureur tire une tête ? — Bien entendu, il est ennuyé.
« — Pourquoi tu tires cette tête-là ? « — Moi ? Je tire une tête… ?”
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.