festina
\fɛs.ti.na\
The verdict
“festina” is uncommon French (frequency #78,423 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,423
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe festiner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-festina · festina · French
festina · rank #78,423 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,423
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fendus
Nearest frequency peer: fendus (-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 « festina »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- farfouiller
farfouiller
21,583 corpus weight
- fars
fars
21,582 corpus weight
- Felder
Felder
21,580 corpus weight
- fendus
fendus
21,579 corpus weight
- festina
festina
21,578 corpus weight
- fientes
fientes
21,575 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « festina » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | festina |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɛs.ti.na\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #78,423 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « festina » en français
Rare enough to double-check
festina is uncommon French at frequency #78,423 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fɛs.ti.na\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe festiner.".
festina has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is festina, spelled F-E-S-T-I-N-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe festiner.
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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