festivité
\fɛs.ti.vi.te\
The verdict
“festivité” is uncommon French (frequency #92,730 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,730
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Réjouissance qui se tient pour célébrer une fête.
Corpus desk
Index FR-festivite · festivité · French
festivité · rank #92,730 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,730
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Ferraro
Nearest frequency peer: Ferraro (-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 « festivité »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ferrais
ferrais
7,273 corpus weight
- Ferraro
Ferraro
7,272 corpus weight
- festivité
festivité
7,271 corpus weight
- fibules
fibules
7,270 corpus weight
- filiformes
filiformes
7,269 corpus weight
- FINUL
FINUL
7,268 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « festivité » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | festivité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɛs.ti.vi.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #92,730 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « festivité » en français
Rare enough to double-check
festivité is uncommon French at frequency #92,730 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fɛs.ti.vi.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Réjouissance qui se tient pour célébrer une fête.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for festivité, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is festivité, spelled F-E-S-T-I-V-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Réjouissance qui se tient pour célébrer une fête.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how festivité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Souvent les familles éprouvent le besoin de marquer néanmoins par des festivités l'existence de leur rejeton, et alors elles organisent ce que l'on appelle ici un baptême civil.
On festoyait joyeusement en mangeant beaucoup et en buvant encore plus, comme si l'on n'allait plus manger de tout l'hiver. Ces festivités étaient nommées « Martinales », et tournaient aux Bacchanales, si bien que les évêques s'en offusquèrent vite.
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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