FESPACO
The verdict
“FESPACO” is uncommon French (frequency #73,995 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,995
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Festival panafricain du cinéma et de la télévision de Ouagadougou.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fespaco · FESPACO · French
FESPACO · rank #73,995 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,995
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fermières
Nearest frequency peer: fermières (-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 « FESPACO »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- faussés
faussés
26,010 corpus weight
- feignasses
feignasses
26,009 corpus weight
- fela
fela
26,008 corpus weight
- fermières
fermières
26,007 corpus weight
- FESPACO
FESPACO
26,006 corpus weight
- fichez
fichez
26,004 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « FESPACO » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | FESPACO |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #73,995 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « FESPACO » en français
Rare enough to double-check
FESPACO is uncommon French at frequency #73,995 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Festival panafricain du cinéma et de la télévision de Ouagadougou.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for FESPACO, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is FESPACO, spelled F-E-S-P-A-C-O.
Definition
- 1Festival panafricain du cinéma et de la télévision de Ouagadougou.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how FESPACO appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ainsi la 4ᵉ session du FESPACO se tint en mars 1973, le 5ᵉ en février 1976 (léger décalage dû au différend frontalier qui éclata en 1975 entre le Mali et la Haute-Volta) ; le 6ᵉ en février 1979 […].
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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