feast
\fiːst\
The verdict
“feast” is uncommon French (frequency #99,087 among 137,178 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,087
- frequency rank, French
- 137,178
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Festin, fête.
| 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) |
Where “feast” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
feast is uncommon French at frequency #99,087 among 137,178 “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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Using “feast”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is F-E-A-S-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.