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fêtard

French, noun/fɛ.taʁ/

fêtard is spelled F-Ê-T-A-R-D (6 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 55,824th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fêtard is a French masculine noun meaning “party animal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Homme aimant faire la fête, cherchant le plaisir, parfois jusqu’à la débauche”.

What does fêtard mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineparty animal

  2. 2

    masculinepartygoer

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Qui aime faire la fête.

noun: 1. Homme aimant faire la fête, cherchant le plaisir, parfois jusqu’à la débauche.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of fêtard

  • fêtards plural
  • fêtarde feminine
  • fêtardes plural feminine

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce fêtard?

  • /fɛ.taʁ/
  • /fe.taʁ/
  • \fɛ.taʁ\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to fêtard

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is fêtard in French?

fêtard appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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