frightfest
noun
frightfest is a noun meaning “An event, dramatic work, etc. that is very frightening” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-I-G-H-T-F-E-S-T, and it appears about once in every 23 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of frightfest is frightfests.
What does frightfest mean?
noun
- 1
informalAn event, dramatic work, etc. that is very frightening.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of frightfest
- frightfests plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is frightfest?
Frightfest appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 145,125th 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 frightfest come from?
From fright + -fest.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).