fêler
French, verb/fɛ.le/
fêler is spelled F-Ê-L-E-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 54 million words in written French, the 231,570th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fêler is a French verb meaning “to crack” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Fendre un vase, un cristal, un verre, un métal, etc., de telle sorte que les pièces en demeurent encore…”.
What does fêler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to crack
- 2
to crack
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Fendre un vase, un cristal, un verre, un métal, etc., de telle sorte que les pièces en demeurent encore jointes l’une avec l’autre. 2. Avoir le timbre de la voix qui s'altère (comme celui d'une cloche fêlée). 3. Être atteint par la déraison, par une certaine bizarrerie.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of fêler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- fêlant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- fêlé participle past
- fêle first-person indicative present
- fêles indicative present second-person
- fêlons first-person indicative plural
- fêlez indicative plural present
- fêlent indicative plural present
- fêlais first-person imperfect indicative
- fêlait imperfect indicative singular
- fêlions first-person imperfect indicative
- fêliez imperfect indicative plural
- fêlaient imperfect indicative plural
- fêlai first-person historic indicative
- fêlas historic indicative past
- fêla historic indicative past
- fêlâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fêler?
- /fɛ.le/
- /fe.le/
- \fe.le\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is fêler in French?
fêler appears about once in every 54 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).