fête
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#943
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
fête is aFrenchnoun. It means: Jour consacré particulièrement à des actes de religion, cérémonies religieuses par lesquelles on célèbre ce jour. Pronounced \fɛt\. It ranks #943 in French word frequency. Often confused with ft and feu.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fête |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɛt\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #943 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for fête is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #943 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for fête, with forms such as "fete", "ffête", and "ftêe". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ft", "feu", "fit", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is fête, spelled F-Ê-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Jour consacré particulièrement à des actes de religion, cérémonies religieuses par lesquelles on célèbre ce jour.
- 2Célébration du service divin en commémoration de quelque mystère, ou en l’honneur de quelque saint.
- 3Jour de la fête du saint dont une personne porte le prénom.
- 4Réjouissances publiques qui se font en certaines occasions extraordinaires. — Note d’usage : Dans ce sens, on l’emploie souvent au pluriel.
- 5Réjouissances qui se font dans des assemblées particulières.
- 6Anniversaire (fête annuelle du jour de la naissance d’un individu).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: fete,ffête,ftêe,fêet,fêtte,êfte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for fête
Misspelling Variants of "fête"
Frequency rank: #943 in French
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