fête des Pères
\fɛt de pɛʁ\
The verdict
“fête des Pères” 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) - Fête où les enfants offrent des cadeaux à leur père.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fête des Pères |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɛt de pɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fête des Pères” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for fête des Pères is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɛt de pɛʁ\. 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: "Fête où les enfants offrent des cadeaux à leur père.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for fête des Pères, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 fête des Pères, spelled F-Ê-T-E- -D-E-S- -P-È-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Fête où les enfants offrent des cadeaux à leur père.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is F-Ê-T-E- -D-E-S- -P-È-R-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.