fêtard

\fɛ.taʁ\

/\fɛ.taʁ\/ adj

The verdict

“fêtard” is uncommon French (frequency #55,981 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#55,981
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui aime faire la fête.

Corpus desk

Index FR-fetard · fêtard · French

fêtard · rank #55,981 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #55,981
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH félicités

Nearest frequency peer: félicités (-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 « fêtard »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fêtard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for fêtard
PropertyValue
Headwordfêtard
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\fɛ.taʁ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#55,981
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « fêtard » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).fêtardtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « félicités » (#55,980), « gabarits » (#55,982), « Frioul » (#55,979). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « fêtard » est au #55,981. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

fêtard is uncommon French at frequency #55,981 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fɛ.taʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui aime faire la fête.".

fêtard has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is fêtard, spelled F-Ê-T-A-R-D.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui aime faire la fête.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how fêtard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Vous trouvez qu’il est naturel de voir des vieillards mourir de faim et de misère, pendant que les oisifs fêtards gaspillent l’argent de façon inouïe, dépensent, dit-on, en une soirée de quoi nourrir plusieurs familles pauvres pendant toute une année ?…
  2. Un jeune gommeux, fils poitrinaire et fêtard d’un grand industriel.

This word in other languages

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fêtard"?
"fêtard" is spelled F-Ê-T-A-R-D. The IPA pronunciation is \fɛ.taʁ\.
What does "fêtard" mean?
As an adjective, "fêtard" means: Qui aime faire la fête.
How do you pronounce "fêtard"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fêtard" is \fɛ.taʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "fêtard" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "fêtard", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list