festival
\fɛs.ti.val\
The verdict
“festival” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,413. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,413
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Événement festif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-festival · festival · French
festival · rank #1,413 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,413
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH etre
Nearest frequency peer: etre (-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 « festival »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- entrer
entrer
98,591 corpus weight
- envoyé
envoyé
98,590 corpus weight
- etre
etre
98,589 corpus weight
- festival
festival
98,588 corpus weight
- jeudi
jeudi
98,587 corpus weight
- journaliste
journaliste
98,586 corpus weight
What this shows « festival » 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 | festival |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɛs.ti.val\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,413 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « festival »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around festival (IPA \fɛs.ti.val\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,413 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for festival, with forms such as "efstival", "fesitval", and "fesstival". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "festive", "festives", "festivals", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is festival, spelled F-E-S-T-I-V-A-L.
Definition
- 1Événement festif.
- 2Sorte de fête musicale.
- 3Démonstration par de nombreux exemples.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how festival appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Du 23 au 31 janvier dernier s’est déroulé le 20ᵉᵐᵉ Festival international de court métrages de Clermont-Ferrand. Encore une fois, le Festival que l’on surnomme le “ Cannes du court métrage ” nous a offert un panorama mondial des formats courts mais il faut avouer que peu nous ont marqué.
Les grands festivals annuels en Bretagne constituent les vitrines de promotion de toute cette culture populaire : le FIL de Lorient, la Cornouaille de Quimper, la Lune de Landerneau, les Étonnants voyageurs de Saint-Malo, les (nouvelles) Vieilles charrues de Carhaix et son salon du livre breton, également en plein développement.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- efstival
- fesitval
- fesstival
- festiavl
- festivall
- festivla
- festivval
- festtival
- festvial
- fetsival
- ffestival
- fsetival
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of festival - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).