fleadh
/flɑː/noun
fleadh is a noun meaning “An Irish music festival with competitions for the best performance on various instruments” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-E-A-D-H, and it appears about once in every 29 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fleadh is fleadhs.
What does fleadh mean?
noun
- 1
An Irish music festival with competitions for the best performance on various instruments.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fleadh?
- /flɑː/
- /flɔː/
- /flaː/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fleadh
- fleadhs plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fleadh?
Fleadh appears about once in every 29 million words in written English, the 163,711th 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 fleadh come from?
From Irish fleadh, classical/dialectal/superseded spelling of fleá, from Old Irish fled, from Proto-Celtic *wlidā.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).