fêtaient
\fe.tɛ\
The verdict
“fêtaient” is uncommon French (frequency #77,545 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,545
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de fêter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fetaient · fêtaient · French
fêtaient · rank #77,545 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,545
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fêlures
Nearest frequency peer: fêlures (-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 « fêtaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fulgurances
fulgurances
22,459 corpus weight
- Furlan
Furlan
22,458 corpus weight
- fêlures
fêlures
22,457 corpus weight
- fêtaient
fêtaient
22,456 corpus weight
- gangrenée
gangrenée
22,454 corpus weight
- Gaume
Gaume
22,453 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fêtaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fêtaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fe.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #77,545 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fêtaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fêtaient is uncommon French at frequency #77,545 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fe.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de fêter.".
fêtaient has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is fêtaient, spelled F-Ê-T-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de fêter.
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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