feast
/ˈfiːst/noun, verb
feast is spelled F-E-A-S-T: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 8.9 times per million words in written English, the 7,672nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, feast means “A holiday, festival, especially a religious one” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of feast is feasts.
How many letters and syllables are in feast?
| Letters | 5: F-E-A-S-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 |
| In writing | 8.9 times per million words; the 7,672nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is feast?
Feast appears 8.9 times per million words in written English, the 7,672nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce feast?
- /ˈfiːst/
- [ˈfɪi̯st]
Feast has one syllable.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-feast.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with feast?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as feast.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: festa.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of feast
- feasts plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- feasting participle, present
- feasted participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does feast mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A holiday, festival, especially a religious one
- 2
A very large meal, often of a ceremonial nature.
We had a feast to celebrate the harvest.
- 3
Something delightful and satisfying.
It was a feast for the eyes.
verb
- 1
To partake in a feast, or large meal.
I feasted on turkey and dumplings.
- 2
To dwell upon (something) with delight.
- 3
To hold a feast in honor of (someone).
We feasted them after the victory.
- 4
obsoleteTo serve as a feast for; to feed sumptuously.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Feast in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | festin, banquet , fête , festoyer |
| German | Festmahl, Festessen, Gastmahl , Fest , schlemmen |
| Portuguese | banquete , festa , fartar-se |
| Spanish | festín, comilona, ágape, banquete, convite, comelona |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does feast come from?
From Middle English feeste, feste, borrowed from Old French feste, from Late Latin festa, from the plural of Latin festum (“holiday, festival, feast”), from Proto-Italic *fēs-tos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁s (“god, godhead, deity”); see also Ancient Greek θεός (theós, “god, goddess”). More at theo-. Doublet of fete, fiesta, and fest. Displaced Old English winhate.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).