fêtard
\fɛ.taʁ\
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
- frileuse
frileuse
44,023 corpus weight
- Frioul
Frioul
44,022 corpus weight
- félicités
félicités
44,021 corpus weight
- fêtard
fêtard
44,020 corpus weight
- gabarits
gabarits
44,019 corpus weight
- gable
gable
44,018 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fêtard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fêtard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fɛ.taʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #55,981 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fêtard » en français
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
- 1Qui aime faire la fête.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fêtard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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 ?…
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.
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