fika
/ˈfiːkə/noun
fika is a noun meaning “The Swedish practice of taking a break from daily activities or meeting with people to enjoy pastries and drinks, typically coffee” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-I-K-A, and it appears about once in every 16 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fika is fikas.
What does fika mean?
noun
- 1
The Swedish practice of taking a break from daily activities or meeting with people to enjoy pastries and drinks, typically coffee.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fika?
- /ˈfiːkə/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fika
- fikas plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fika?
Fika appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 121,279th 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).
Where does fika come from?
Borrowed from Swedish fika.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).