fest
\fɛst\
The verdict
“fest” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,167. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,167
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ferme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fest · fest · French
fest · rank #28,167 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,167
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fatigant
Nearest frequency peer: fatigant (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « fest »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- excluent
excluent
71,837 corpus weight
- exiler
exiler
71,836 corpus weight
- fatigant
fatigant
71,835 corpus weight
- fest
fest
71,834 corpus weight
- finaux
finaux
71,832 corpus weight
- flambée
flambée
71,831 corpus weight
What this shows « fest » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fest |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fɛst\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #28,167 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fest »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around fest (IPA \fɛst\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #28,167 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for fest, with forms such as "efst", "fesst", and "festt". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ft", "Fs", "feu", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is fest, spelled F-E-S-T.
Definition
- 1Ferme.
- 2Impitoyable.
- 3Robuste, solide.
- 4Caractérise l'état solide, par opposition à l'état liquide ou gazeux.
- 5Permanent, fixe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fest appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Wäre er dreißig Jahre alt gewesen, hätte er noch diese ewig feste Haut gehabt, diese Haut, die weder Tod noch Falten fürchtet, dieses noch drahtige und schwarze Haar, wäre Lucie dann auch vor ihrem schönen Liebhaber davongerannt in die morgendliche Dusche?
Seit seiner Krankheit hat er Schwierigkeiten, feste Nahrung hinunterzuschlucken.
Antonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- efst
- fesst
- festt
- fets
- ffest
- fset
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fest - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "fest", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).