festival
French, noun/fɛs.ti.val/
festival is spelled F-E-S-T-I-V-A-L (8 letters) and appears 59 times per million words in written French, the 1,419th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Festival is a French masculine noun meaning “festival” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Événement festif”.
What does festival mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinefestival
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Événement festif. 2. Sorte de fête musicale. 3. Démonstration par de nombreux exemples.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of festival
- festivals plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce festival?
- /fɛs.ti.val/
- \fɛs.ti.val\
- [fɛs.ti.val]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to festival
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is festival in French?
festival appears 59 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).