tirer une tête
\ti.ʁe yn tɛt\
The verdict
“tirer une tête” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Bouder.
| 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) |
Where “tirer une tête” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tirer une tête is 14 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ti.ʁe yn tɛt\. 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: "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.
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.
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Using “tirer une tête”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-I-R-E-R- -U-N-E- -T-Ê-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ti.ʁe yn tɛt\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.