feist
\faɪst\
The verdict
“feist” is uncommon French (frequency #62,272 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,272
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gras, gros, obèse, souvent avec connotation péjorative.
Corpus desk
Index FR-feist · feist · French
feist · rank #62,272 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,272
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Fce
Nearest frequency peer: Fce (-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 « feist »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fanées
fanées
37,733 corpus weight
- façonnage
façonnage
37,731 corpus weight
- Fce
Fce
37,730 corpus weight
- feist
feist
37,729 corpus weight
- Fernández
Fernández
37,728 corpus weight
- feuillette
feuillette
37,727 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « feist » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | feist |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \faɪst\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #62,272 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « feist » en français
Rare enough to double-check
feist is uncommon French at frequency #62,272 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \faɪst\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Gras, gros, obèse, souvent avec connotation péjorative.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for feist in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is feist, spelled F-E-I-S-T.
Definition
- 1Gras, gros, obèse, souvent avec connotation péjorative.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how feist appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ein feister Mann.
Auf dem Goldstück, das durch seine Hand glitt, war bald des enthaupteten Königs feistes Profil, bald die Jakobinermütze der Freiheit, bald des Konsuls Römergesicht, bald Napoleon im kaiserlichen Ornat.
Synonyms
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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