festa
\ˈfe.sta\
The verdict
“festa” is uncommon French (frequency #73,166 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,166
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fête.
Corpus desk
Index FR-festa · festa · French
festa · rank #73,166 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,166
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH ferrailles
Nearest frequency peer: ferrailles (-2 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 « festa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fauconnerie
fauconnerie
26,839 corpus weight
- Fayence
Fayence
26,838 corpus weight
- ferrailles
ferrailles
26,837 corpus weight
- festa
festa
26,835 corpus weight
- finder
finder
26,832 corpus weight
- foliaire
foliaire
26,831 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « festa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | festa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈfe.sta\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #73,166 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « festa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
festa is uncommon French at frequency #73,166 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈfe.sta\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fête.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for festa, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is festa, spelled F-E-S-T-A.
Definition
- 1Fête.
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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