festoyer
\fɛs.twa.je\
The verdict
“festoyer” is uncommon French (frequency #65,157 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,157
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Recevoir à une fête, à un festin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-festoyer · festoyer · French
festoyer · rank #65,157 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,157
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fennec
Nearest frequency peer: fennec (-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 « festoyer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fendi
fendi
34,846 corpus weight
- fennec
fennec
34,845 corpus weight
- festoyer
festoyer
34,844 corpus weight
- ficelée
ficelée
34,843 corpus weight
- fiente
fiente
34,842 corpus weight
- Filippi
Filippi
34,841 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « festoyer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | festoyer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɛs.twa.je\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #65,157 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « festoyer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
festoyer is uncommon French at frequency #65,157 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fɛs.twa.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for festoyer in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is festoyer, spelled F-E-S-T-O-Y-E-R.
Definition
- 1Recevoir à une fête, à un festin.
- 2Prendre part à une fête, à un festin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how festoyer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’ai pensé qu'il serait sans doute courtois de lui envoyer un message, en réponse à l'accueil de l'U.R.S.S. où, partout, nous avons été acclamés, festoyés, choyés.
Joli remorqueur, qui s’engrave bêtement, car, s’il empruntait pour parvenir, s’il s’endettait pour avoir festoyé des députés, pour obtenir des voix et augmenter son influence, je lui dirais : « Voilà ma bourse, puise, mon ami ! »
Synonyms
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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