fête des morts
\fɛt de mɔʁ\
The verdict
“fête des morts” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Le jour qui suit la Toussaint et que l’Église consacre à la commémoration des fidèles défunts.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fête des morts |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɛt de mɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fête des morts” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for fête des morts is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɛt de mɔʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Le jour qui suit la Toussaint et que l’Église consacre à la commémoration des fidèles défunts.".
No misspelling variants are generated for fête des morts in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, 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 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 des morts, spelled F-Ê-T-E- -D-E-S- -M-O-R-T-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Le jour qui suit la Toussaint et que l’Église consacre à la commémoration des fidèles défunts.
Synonyms
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Using “fête des morts”
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- The one correct French spelling is F-Ê-T-E- -D-E-S- -M-O-R-T-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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