fêtarde
\fɛ.taʁd\
The verdict
“fêtarde” is uncommon French (frequency #92,764 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,764
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme aimant faire la fête, participant à une fête.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fetarde · fêtarde · French
fêtarde · rank #92,764 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,764
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fédératrice
Nearest frequency peer: fédératrice (-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 « fêtarde »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- frémissant
frémissant
7,241 corpus weight
- Fukuyama
Fukuyama
7,240 corpus weight
- fédératrice
fédératrice
7,238 corpus weight
- fêtarde
fêtarde
7,237 corpus weight
- galla
galla
7,234 corpus weight
- galvanisés
galvanisés
7,232 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fêtarde » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fêtarde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɛ.taʁd\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #92,764 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fêtarde » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fêtarde is uncommon French at frequency #92,764 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fɛ.taʁd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Femme aimant faire la fête, participant à une fête.".
fêtarde has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is fêtarde, spelled F-Ê-T-A-R-D-E.
Definition
- 1Femme aimant faire la fête, participant à une fête.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fêtarde appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Maïna, pétulante comme d’habitude, a mené la conversation et nous avons bien ri. Elle a largué son amoureux, pas assez vivant à son goût et est repartie dans sa vie de fêtarde.
Synonyms
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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