fête

\fɛt\

/\fɛt\/ noun

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The verdict

“fête” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #943. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#943
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jour consacré particulièrement à des actes de religion, cérémonies religieuses par lesquelles on célèbre ce jour.

Corpus desk

Index FR-fete · fête · French

fête · rank #943 · 6 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-CORE #943
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH forte

Nearest frequency peer: forte (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « fête »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « fête » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

fête vs ft
50% similar
fête vs feu
25% similar
fête vs fit
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for fête
PropertyValue
Headwordfête
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fɛt\
Letters4
Frequency rank#943
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fête »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.fêtese place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « forte » (#942), « informations » (#944), « explique » (#941). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « fête » est au #943. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around fête (IPA \fɛt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #943 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for fête, with forms such as "fete", "ffête", and "ftêe". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ft", "feu", "fit", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is fête, spelled F-Ê-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Jour consacré particulièrement à des actes de religion, cérémonies religieuses par lesquelles on célèbre ce jour.
  2. 2
    Célébration du service divin en commémoration de quelque mystère, ou en l’honneur de quelque saint.
  3. 3
    Jour de la fête du saint dont une personne porte le prénom.
  4. 4
    Réjouissances publiques qui se font en certaines occasions extraordinaires. — Note d’usage : Dans ce sens, on l’emploie souvent au pluriel.
  5. 5
    Réjouissances qui se font dans des assemblées particulières.
  6. 6
    Anniversaire (fête annuelle du jour de la naissance d’un individu).

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Les fêtes religieuses de l’antiquité.
  2. Les païens célébraient la plupart de leurs fêtes par des sacrifices et des jeux.

Synonyms

bambochebamboulaboumboumechouillefiestajavanocenoubapartiepartyraptaraverave-partyfree-partysauteriesurboumsurboumesurprise-partiesurprise-partysurpatteteuffestival

This word in other languages

feast day(English)fiesta(Español)Fest(Deutsch)festa(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • fete
  • ffête
  • ftêe
  • fêet
  • fêtte
  • êfte

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fête - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

fete1ffête1ftêe2fêet2fêtte1êfte2
Edit distance from "fête"

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 "fête"?
"fête" is spelled F-Ê-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \fɛt\.
What does "fête" mean?
As a noun, "fête" means: Jour consacré particulièrement à des actes de religion, cérémonies religieuses par lesquelles on célèbre ce jour.
What words are commonly confused with "fête"?
"fête" is commonly confused with "ft", "feu", "fit". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "fête"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fête" is \fɛt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "fête" come from?
"fête" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

bons#933ceci#959Note#925faux#920

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

voulu6 variantsbonnes6 variantspuisse6 variantsappelé6 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list