# feast vs fess

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### feast
*noun · IPA /fiːst/ · frequency rank #7,689*
A holiday, festival, especially a religious one

### fess
*verb · IPA /fɛs/ · frequency rank #43,640*
To confess; to admit.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/feast-vs-fess