festin

\fɛs.tɛ̃\

/\fɛs.tɛ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“festin” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,484. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#18,484
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
7
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Repas de fête abondant et somptueux.

Corpus desk

Index FR-festin · festin · French

festin · rank #18,484 · 9 variants · 7 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #18,484
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH Fall

Nearest frequency peer: Fall (-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 « festin »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « festin » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

festin vs fortin
67% similar
festin vs fiston
67% similar
festin vs festive
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for festin
PropertyValue
Headwordfestin
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fɛs.tɛ̃\
Letters6
Frequency rank#18,484
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « festin »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.festinse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Fall » (#18,483), « feuillage » (#18,485), « extrémiste » (#18,482). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « festin » est au #18,484. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around festin (IPA \fɛs.tɛ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,484 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for festin, with forms such as "efstin", "fesitn", and "fesstin". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "fortin", "fiston", "festive", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is festin, spelled F-E-S-T-I-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Repas de fête abondant et somptueux.
  2. 2
    Repas ; nourriture.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how festin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. En ce moment de silence, une porte s’ouvrit ; et, comme au festin de Balthazar, Dieu se fit reconnaître, il apparut sous les traits d’un vieux domestique en cheveux blancs, à la démarche tremblante, aux sourcils contractés ; […]
  2. Il […] présidait les grandes assemblées de la nation franke, suivies de ces festins traditionnels parmi la race teutonique, où des sangliers et des daims entiers étaient servis tout embrochés, et où des tonneaux défoncés occupaient les quatre coins de la salle.

Synonyms

banquet

This word in other languages

feast(English)festín(Español)Festessen(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • efstin
  • fesitn
  • fesstin
  • festinn
  • festni
  • festtin
  • fetsin
  • ffestin
  • fsetin

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of festin - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

efstin2fesitn2fesstin1festinn1festni2festtin1fetsin2ffestin1
Edit distance from "festin"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "festin"?
"festin" is spelled F-E-S-T-I-N. The IPA pronunciation is \fɛs.tɛ̃\.
What does "festin" mean?
As a noun, "festin" means: Repas de fête abondant et somptueux.
What words are commonly confused with "festin"?
"festin" is commonly confused with "fortin", "fiston", "festive". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "festin"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "festin" is \fɛs.tɛ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "festin" come from?
"festin" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "festin", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

forges#18,488fronde#18,491Gandhi#18,493gilets#18,495

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

frisson9 variantsguérit9 variantsheurté9 variantsdureté9 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list