Festessen
[ˈfɛstˌʔɛsn̩]
The verdict
“Festessen” is uncommon German (frequency #61,494 among 3,474 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,494
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - besonders gutes, aufwendiges, festliches Essen
Corpus desk
Index DE-festessen · Festessen · German
Festessen · rank #61,494 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,494
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH Fernsehsenders
Nearest frequency peer: Fernsehsenders (-1 rank slots)
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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Festessen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- feist
feist
38,510 corpus weight
- Feldarbeit
Feldarbeit
38,509 corpus weight
- Fernsehsend…
Fernsehsenders
38,508 corpus weight
- Festessen
Festessen
38,507 corpus weight
- filius
filius
38,505 corpus weight
- Filmemacher…
Filmemacherin
38,504 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Festessen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Festessen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfɛstˌʔɛsn̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #61,494 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Festessen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Festessen is uncommon German at frequency #61,494 among 3,474 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈfɛstˌʔɛsn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "besonders gutes, aufwendiges, festliches Essen".
Zero misspellings are on record for Festessen in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, 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 German form is Festessen, spelled F-E-S-T-E-S-S-E-N.
Definition
- 1besonders gutes, aufwendiges, festliches Essen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Festessen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Mutter des Hauses hat ein Festessen gekocht.
„Einige Tage nach dem Festessen bei den Arkesdens kehrten Lucas und Barbara nach einer Fahrt durch das Marschland zum Haus ihrer Eltern zurück.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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