feuilleton
/ˈfəːɪtɒ̃/noun
feuilleton is a noun meaning “A section of a European newspaper typically dedicated to arts, culture, criticism, and light literature” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-E-U-I-L-L-E-T-O-N and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 34 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of feuilleton is feuilletons.
What does feuilleton mean?
noun
- 1
A section of a European newspaper typically dedicated to arts, culture, criticism, and light literature.
- 2
An article published in such a section.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce feuilleton?
- UK /ˈfəːɪtɒ̃/
- UK /ˈfʊɪˌtɒn/
- UK /ˌfəɪˈtɑn/
Feuilleton has 2 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-feuilleton.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of feuilleton
- feuilletons plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is feuilleton?
Feuilleton appears about once in every 34 million words in written English, the 178,202nd 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).
Feuilleton in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense section of a newspaper:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Feuilleton |
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 feuilleton come from?
Borrowed from French feuilleton.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).