feast
\fiːst\
The verdict
“feast” is uncommon French (frequency #99,087 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,087
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Festin, fête.
Corpus desk
Index FR-feast · feast · French
feast · rank #99,087 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,087
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fave
Nearest frequency peer: fave (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « feast »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Fass
Fass
917 corpus weight
- Fastfood
Fastfood
916 corpus weight
- fave
fave
915 corpus weight
- feast
feast
914 corpus weight
- feins
feins
913 corpus weight
- Fiesole
Fiesole
911 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « feast » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | feast |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fiːst\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #99,087 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « feast » en français
Rare enough to double-check
feast is uncommon French at frequency #99,087 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fiːst\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for feast in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is feast, spelled F-E-A-S-T.
Definition
- 1Festin, fête.
- 2Fête.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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